Thanks for the input. Will bring it up in Saturday's meeting. If you could point to a button style you think we should mimic that would be great, or select one from the list at bestcssbuttongenerator.com .
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM Pasi Lallinaho <p...@shimmerproject.org> wrote: > I don't know if the language names need "spicing up", but if you insist, I > guess you can look at introducing some kind of button style for the > language links, ideally matching our website looks (other parts of the > documentation follow our websites visual style as well). > > I acknowledge it's a common thing to use flags to represent languages, but > IMO, it's bad practice. > > Cheers, > Pasi > > On 7.5.2020 13.08, Yousuf Philips wrote: > > The language names are present below the flags and just having their names > on a blank page doesn't look appealing. Any thoughts of how to spice it up > if we were to only use the language names. > > It is quite common for flags to be used as language representatives, like > for example in the keyboard layouts panel plugin as alternative for > language name abbreviations. > > Regards, > Yousuf > > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:09 AM Pasi Lallinaho <p...@shimmerproject.org> > wrote: > >> My suggestion is to use the language names as they are representative of >> languages. Or in other words, languages do not have any sensible >> representative images, so I would not use any. >> >> Cheers, >> Pasi >> >> On 6.5.2020 17.57, Yousuf Philips wrote: >> >> So what would be your suggestion and an image related to languages? >> >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:34 AM Pasi Lallinaho <p...@shimmerproject.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Please, no flags for languages, as they are not representative. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pasi >>> >>> On 5.5.2020 22.00, Yousuf Philips wrote: >>> >>> Hi Team, >>> >>> Here is my idea of what the docs homepage could look like, in two >>> variations. >>> https://imgur.com/a/04nvIt6 >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 5:11 PM Yousuf Philips <ypha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Team, >>>> >>>> We had the meeting yesterday which Sean, Bernardo, Stephen, and I >>>> attended, where we discussed our plans to improve the documentation. >>>> Various meeting minutes were put into the main google doc[1] and we plan to >>>> meet once a week to discuss things to keep the pace of work going forward. >>>> Each week we'll be working on a single docs page/chapter, in a google doc I >>>> prepare, so that we all have a central place to collaborate on its >>>> improvement, and can also reach out to the community to contribute to. At >>>> each meeting we'll review the page's edits and finalize it and then it will >>>> be copied over to the git repo. >>>> >>>> Sean will be investigating various options to make it easier for >>>> contributors to help keep the docs up to date. A telegram group[2] has been >>>> created for those that want to be involved and we can bridge it with a >>>> #xubuntu-docs irc channel if there are those wanting it. >>>> >>>> So for this week, we'll be improving the main documentation homepage[3] >>>> in this google doc[4]. During the meeting we agreed upon these changes >>>> * As this page is not translated, the useful parts of the contents of >>>> this page will move to the Table of Contents (ToC) page, so that it can be >>>> translated. >>>> * The page would become just a language selector which leads to the >>>> translated ToC page. >>>> >>>> People can suggest ideas of how this language selector page can look in >>>> the google doc[4] or on the mailing list. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Yousuf >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGNc4nDmUkhk67-S07VKhOQ7tSWXUW6ureG8N7SVM_o/edit# >>>> [2] https://t.me/joinchat/CVgtjBP82eyMqVzhScdfAw >>>> [3] https://docs.xubuntu.org/2004/ >>>> [4] >>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Aj_Wdj9Uq62Ju0bvjhz15NVdaI_SaAMo8xqdU9s67YE/edit# >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pasi Lallinaho (knome) › https://open.knome.fi/ >>> Xubuntu contributor › https://xubuntu.org/ >>> Xfce contributor › https://xfce.org/ >>> Shimmer Project co-founder › https://shimmerproject.org/ >>> >>> >> -- >> Pasi Lallinaho (knome) › https://open.knome.fi/ >> Xubuntu contributor › https://xubuntu.org/ >> Xfce contributor › https://xfce.org/ >> Shimmer Project co-founder › https://shimmerproject.org/ >> >> > -- > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) › https://open.knome.fi/ > Xubuntu contributor › https://xubuntu.org/ > Xfce contributor › https://xfce.org/ > Shimmer Project co-founder › https://shimmerproject.org/ > >
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