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Will Jones commented on ARROW-12188:
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I also like the single menu in #3 (similar to what exists now) for
documentation.
Another option we could consider is using the Navbar to link back to the
homepage and the menu links there (FAQ, Blog, Community), as I think you are
suggesting with your last question. Just need to be careful to distinguish
between going to the homepage of documentation vs homepage of Apache Arrow site.
> [Docs] Switch to pydata-sphinx-theme for the main sphinx docs
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-12188
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12188
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
> Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 4.0.0
>
> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> I have been working on using a new theme (the
> [pydata-sphinx-theme|https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/]
> with some custom styling for Arrow) for the sphinx documentation.
> Initially, I tried out a few variants (see below), but unless more people
> give their preference, I will keep the layout the same as it is now (a single
> sidebar, option 3 below).
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> A few options for the layout, with a preview that I pushed to github pages:
> 1. Navbar + sidebar: the navbar contains the main sections (format,
> libraries, development), and then the sidebar further up to each page.
> Two example links:
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-1/format/CDataInterface.html]
> and
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-1/python/parquet.html]
> 2. Navbar with dropdown + sidebar: similar as above, but with an additional
> dropdown for the different libraries (languages). As a consequence, the
> sidebar only contains the items for one language (eg python) at a time
> (giving a better view if you're only looking at the python docs IMO, but
> needs more clicks to switch to another language).
> The same two example links:
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-2-dropdown/format/CDataInterface.html],
>
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-2-dropdown/python/parquet.html]
> (note that this option definitely still needs a better clue that you are eg
> in the python sub-part of the docs)
> 3. Only sidebar: this is similar in structure to what we have today with the
> RTD theme.
> The same two example links:
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-3-single-sidebar/format/CDataInterface.html],
>
> [https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-3-single-sidebar/python/parquet.html]
> Lastly, I also made a option 4 that uses a single sidebar as option 3, but
> with a dropdown to choose the topic:
> https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-4-sidebar-with-dropdown/format/CDataInterface.html,
>
> https://jorisvandenbossche.github.io/arrow-docs-preview/html-option-4-sidebar-with-dropdown/python/parquet.html
>
> Probably those previews can be further improved with some additional (CSS)
> tweaks. I "just" took the orange-like color that is also used on the home
> page as the main color for the navigation, to give it a bit a custom touch.
> But so feedback on both which general structure you like most as details you
> would like to see improved is certainly welcome.
> An additional question is if we want to integrate this somehow with the
> navbar we already have from the home page.
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