Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-20 Thread Ketil Malde
Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com writes: Sadly nobody has the time nor inclination to do proper web development and actually test designs and get feedback, so I suppose we're working with the time we've got. At least with theme support, we can write a load of themes, and then

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-20 Thread Ketil Malde
Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes: (Looking at http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/download-website) * The three columns at the bottom overlap! Perhaps this is a valid case for a table rather than three divs and CSS layout. Agreed and implemented. That was easier! Scaling is still a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-19 Thread wren ng thornton
Malcolm Wallace wrote: I still like the original design on http://imgur.com/NjiVh a lot better, It has a simple modern design to it in my opinion :) +1. It is simply beautiful. Much more striking and memorable than the blue diver. I really like the background image; it's nicely striking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Malcolm Wallace
I still like the original design on http://imgur.com/NjiVh a lot better, It has a simple modern design to it in my opinion :) +1. It is simply beautiful. Much more striking and memorable than the blue diver. Regards, Malcolm ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread David Menendez
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: andrewcoppin: Don Stewart wrote: allbery: like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to - Download older versions of HP. - Find out which HP release contains what. - Figure out what the difference

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Don Stewart
dave: Actually, it just got trivial:    $ diffcabal old-platform.cabal haskell-platform.cabal    Cabal 1.8.0.2 - 1.8.0.6    QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 - 2.1.1.1 [etc.] Okay, so where do I go to find out the difference between, say, QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 and 2.1.1.1? -- Currently, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Iavor Diatchki
The changelog feature would be very useful---dumping repository history is no substitute for it because it is too low level (contains too much noise). Generally, I would expect that whoever makes the release of a piece of software should be in charge of writing a summary of what's new since the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
Iavor Diatchki wrote: The changelog feature would be very useful---dumping repository history is no substitute for it because it is too low level (contains too much noise). Generally, I would expect that whoever makes the release of a piece of software should be in charge of writing a summary

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 18 July 2010 21:23, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: As somebody who occasionally releases (admittedly useless) packages on Hackage, it's really quite irritating that there isn't an easy way to say what changed. (As for scanning a repo to find changes, that's very

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-18 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 19 July 2010 04:16, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Hackage doesn't yet provide support for changelogs. However, it does provide support for repository links, from which we can construct a changelog. That's right: you have to read each repo to get the full changelog, unless the author

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Johan Tibell
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 July 2010 20:37, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: chrisdone: Regarding the Haskell Platform, maybe a summer theme is in order? Sunrise, here's a whole platform upgrade. Get it while it's hot, etc.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Christopher Done
On 17 July 2010 01:43, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Here's a first cut in the repo with the new design converted to CSS    http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/download-website/ If anyone would like to clean it up further, please send me patches to the style.css file or index.html.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Max Rabkin
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Here's a first cut in the repo with the new design converted to CSS    http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/download-website/ If anyone would like to clean it up further, please send me patches to the style.css file or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Serguey Zefirov
2010/7/17 Don Stewart d...@galois.com: Here's a first cut in the repo with the new design converted to CSS    http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/download-website/ If anyone would like to clean it up further, please send me patches to the style.css file or index.html. I have big fonts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Christopher Done wrote: Maybe you could work on a theme like this. Probably OTT. http://imgur.com/NjiVh Just an idea. My Inkscape-fu is weak. I love the way he says my fu is weak after just posting a single image which is radically better than anything I have ever produced in 20+ years

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Thomas Schilling wrote: It would be great if the new design were compatible with the new wiki design ( http://lambda-haskell.galois.com/haskellwiki/ ). It doesn't have to be *that* similar, just compatible. Hmm. That's really not very pretty... (Or maybe it's just that I dislike brown? I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Schilling
Haters gonna hate. The new wiki will have a user preference to switch back to the default monobook style. You can always do that if you want. It doesn't work fully, yet, but that's on my ToDo list. On 17 July 2010 11:53, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Thomas Schilling wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Thomas Schilling wrote: Haters gonna hate. Well, I don't *hate* it. It just looks a little muddy, that's all. I tend to go for bright primary colours. But, as you say, each to their own... The actual layout isn't bad. A bit tall-and-thin, but otherwise OK. The new wiki will have a user

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Christopher Done
On 17 July 2010 13:37, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Thomas Schilling wrote: Haters gonna hate. Well, I don't *hate* it. It just looks a little muddy, that's all. I tend to go for bright primary colours. But, as you say, each to their own... The actual layout isn't bad. A

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Phyx
: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site On 17 July 2010 13:37, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Thomas Schilling wrote: Haters gonna hate. Well, I don't *hate* it. It just looks a little muddy, that's all. I tend to go for bright primary colours. But, as you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Christopher Done
Of Christopher Done Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 14:32 To: Andrew Coppin Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site On 17 July 2010 13:37, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Thomas Schilling wrote: Haters gonna hate

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Phyx
To: Phyx Cc: Andrew Coppin; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site Have you got SVG or PNG versions of those logos? On 17 July 2010 14:54, Phyx loneti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, I like it, I just have 2 small observations: 1. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Schilling
Webdesign for an open source project is pretty much doomed from the beginning. Design requires a few opinionated people rather than democracy. This is design is a result of a haskell-cafe thread which naturally involved a lot of bikeshedding. It has its flaws, but it's certainly better than the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Christopher Done
On 17 July 2010 16:21, Thomas Schilling nomin...@googlemail.com wrote: Webdesign for an open source project is pretty much doomed from the beginning.  Design requires a few opinionated people rather than democracy.  This is design is a result of a haskell-cafe thread which naturally involved a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/17/10 06:49 , Andrew Coppin wrote: I love the way he says my fu is weak after just posting a single image which is radically better than anything I have ever produced in 20+ years of doing computer graphics! o_O Don't conflate ability to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 7/17/10 06:49 , Andrew Coppin wrote: I love the way he says my fu is weak after just posting a single image which is radically better than anything I have ever produced in 20+ years of doing computer graphics! o_O Don't conflate ability to operate a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Lentczner
On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Don Stewart wrote: If anyone is interested in a 2010.2 series design for the HP site, the repository containing the stylesheet is here: http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ I like the content. The layout has some flaws when rendered on my environment

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Christopher Done
Thought I'd bring Neimeijer's design into the mix, because I think it's brilliant (and it's been built): (For some reason it didn't appear in this thread in my GMail inbox; perhaps the Subject field got altered. Posting this here incase it happened like that for everyone else so that we can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Don Stewart
allbery: like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to - Download older versions of HP. - Find out which HP release contains what. - Figure out what the difference between release X and release Y is. +1 I'd consider this mandatory. It's amazing how many projects

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: allbery: like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to - Download older versions of HP. - Find out which HP release contains what. - Figure out what the difference between release X and release Y is. +1 I'd consider this mandatory. It's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Don Stewart
markl: I like the content. The layout has some flaws when rendered on my environment (Safari 4, but with perhaps narrower than most peoples windows): * The background image tiled looks pretty bad - since I see repeats and it doesn't really tile. Yes, noted. * The three columns at the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: Don Stewart wrote: allbery: like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to - Download older versions of HP. - Find out which HP release contains what. - Figure out what the difference between release X and release Y is. +1 I'd consider this

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Phyx
19:31 To: Mark Lentczner Cc: haskell-platf...@projects.haskell.org; haskell-cafe Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site Thought I'd bring Neimeijer's design into the mix, because I think it's brilliant (and it's been built): (For some reason it didn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-17 Thread Miguel Pagano
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes: Anyway, I'm loving the current theme. But if we're redesigning the site, I'd like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to - Download older versions of HP. - Find out which HP release contains what. - Figure out what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Done
Hi Don, What's the ETA on getting the site wiki upgraded and to what version will it be? If we're looking at another couple of weeks I'll come up with a new wiki template this weekend to replace the current one. Regarding the Haskell Platform, maybe a summer theme is in order? Sunrise, here's a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Don Stewart
chrisdone: Hi Don, What's the ETA on getting the site wiki upgraded and to what version will it be? If we're looking at another couple of weeks I'll come up with a new wiki template this weekend to replace the current one. For haskell.org? Thomas Schilling and Ian Lynagh are working on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Done
On 16 July 2010 20:37, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: chrisdone: Regarding the Haskell Platform, maybe a summer theme is in order? Sunrise, here's a whole platform upgrade. Get it while it's hot, etc.    That's a great idea! :-) Maybe you could work on a theme like this. Probably OTT.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Don Stewart
chrisdone: On 16 July 2010 20:37, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: chrisdone: Regarding the Haskell Platform, maybe a summer theme is in order? Sunrise, here's a whole platform upgrade. Get it while it's hot, etc.    That's a great idea! :-) Maybe you could work on a theme like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Paulo Tanimoto
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe you could work on a theme like this. Probably OTT. http://imgur.com/NjiVh Just an idea. My Inkscape-fu is weak. That looks great to me! I like blue, but I'd be in favor of a different color, like what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Schilling
It would be great if the new design were compatible with the new wiki design ( http://lambda-haskell.galois.com/haskellwiki/ ). It doesn't have to be *that* similar, just compatible. On 16 July 2010 19:37, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: chrisdone: Hi Don, What's the ETA on getting the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Don Stewart
chrisdone: On 16 July 2010 20:37, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: chrisdone: Regarding the Haskell Platform, maybe a summer theme is in order? Sunrise, here's a whole platform upgrade. Get it while it's hot, etc.    That's a great idea! :-) Maybe you could work on a theme like