Hi, L p R n d n <g...@lprndn.info> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: [...] >> A very concrete task that could be of interest to you is the “name >> change” (a bit of a strong word) that we’d like to implement by 1.0. >> I’ll try to summarize. Currently we have “Guix” and “GuixSD”, and that >> confuses things: people visit the web site, they see a “GuixSD” logo and >> get confused because they were just looking for a package manager, not a >> whole distro, or they think “GuixSD” is a storage device ;-), things >> like that. >> >> The idea is to bring everything under the “Guix” name. Most of the >> time, writing “Guix” is good enough—after all, one can run ‘guix system’ >> on a foreign distro, too. When we really need to make the distinction, >> for instance in the manual, we would write “Guix System” to designate >> what we currently call “GuixSD”. > > Hum. It might just be as easy as getting rid of the GuixSD logo and > wording for the most part. Then we can find a *preferred* way to > designate GuixSD (a Guix system (probably), Guix distro, Guix os).Here, > it's more about making GuixSD "disappear" but we could also just rebrand > GuixSD with some kind of "subtitle": "Guix, the system", derive a logo > from the Guix's one. It depends a lot from what we want to put under the > spotlight. The idea is more to have a single “brand”: Guix. Then “Guix System” would be a component of Guix, so to speak, similar to GNOME and its applications. >> This has implications mostly on the web site and on the manual. Ricardo >> sketched web site modifications here: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-01/msg00300.html >> >> It would probably have further implications on how we present >> Guix/GuixSD. >> >> WDYT? > > Yeah, thinking about GuixSD as a derivative is probably the best way to > comprehend it. So give it its own leaf page is probably a good idea. I > would keep all downloads on the same page though and just separate them > visually. But it depends froms what I said previously. Sounds reasonable. Would you like to give it a go? I suppose the changes to the web site can be made incrementally, it’s not an all-or-nothing change. If you’d like to fiddle with this and you need guidance with the web site machinery, don’t hesitate to ask on IRC or the ML! Thanks, Ludo’.
