Bug 252157 – Reorganise website main menu

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Websites

[Description Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2008-12-22 10:18:08 UTC]

In my opinion the main menu of the Gentoo website is cluttered and hard to read. I propose that it be tidied up.

Following my recent posts to the -project mailing list, I have implemented a new version of the main menu. The patches to implement this are supplied here.

The first patch simply implements the new menu.

The second set of patches ("guide" is applied to xsl/guide.xsl while "css" is applied to css/main.css) restructure the HTML to use unordered lists.

This new version of the main menu is currently viewable at http://gentoowww.allenjb.me.uk

[Comment 1 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2008-12-22 10:19:07 UTC]

Created attachment 176132 [details, diff]
xsl/guide.xsl patch to implement new menu

[Comment 2 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2008-12-22 10:19:46 UTC]

Created attachment 176134 [details, diff]
xsl/guide.xsl patch to implement new menu as unordered list

[Comment 3 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2008-12-22 10:20:27 UTC]

Created attachment 176135 [details, diff]
css/main.css patch to implement new menu as unordered list

[Comment 4 Steve L 2008-12-24 11:48:14 UTC]

Looks good AllenJB.

[Comment 5 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2008-12-31 16:42:35 UTC]

Depends on bug #204402 because they will be committed in one go.
Implemented on index2.xml

Sorry about your list, but your bullets look bloody awful.
See http://gentest.neysx.org/ for menus implemented as lists.
I copied your menu there.

[Comment 6 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2008-12-31 18:22:52 UTC]

Thanks for implementing this. Whatever works for you guys =)

[Comment 7 Daniel Pielmeier 2009-01-15 08:54:35 UTC]

Any chance that there will be a link to sources.gentoo.org in the new menu again?

Also is there a timeline about the implementation of this and bug #204402? This all looks quite promising.

[Comment 8 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2009-01-15 11:45:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Any chance that there will be a link to sources.gentoo.org in the new menu
> again?

Not directly. There's already a "Source Repositories" link where you can learn about sources.g.o as an alternative to anonymous CVS/SVN
See bug #252330

> Also is there a timeline about the implementation of this and bug #204402? This
> all looks quite promising.

No. PR should write us a nice newsitem explaining the changes.

[Comment 9 Daniel Pielmeier 2009-01-15 12:21:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Not directly. There's already a "Source Repositories" link where you can learn
> about sources.g.o as an alternative to anonymous CVS/SVN
> See bug #252330

Okay thanks I must have missed that.

> No. PR should write us a nice newsitem explaining the changes.

So when the news-item is ready the changes will be implemented?

[Comment 10 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2009-01-15 16:44:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Not directly. There's already a "Source Repositories" link where you can learn
> > about sources.g.o as an alternative to anonymous CVS/SVN
> > See bug #252330
> Okay thanks I must have missed that.

It was added after this bug was created. See bug #253384

> > No. PR should write us a nice newsitem explaining the changes.
> So when the news-item is ready the changes will be implemented?

Yes :)

[Comment 11 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2009-01-31 08:44:01 UTC]

New menu committed. Thanks for reporting.