Ooh, so you're thinking to put the main steps in the side panel, with
descriptions in the rest of the page?
Or are you thinking about some sort of graphic for each step?
(I can actually imagine a cartoon of nerd with pencil and paper, who sees a bug
crawl across the paper he's drawing on (or maybe a computer screen) who freaks
out, whacks it with a fly swatter, and it ends with the nerd looking all
self-satisfied and happy. And then we would have the text for each step
connected with each frame. I'm certainly no artist....but it would make for a
pretty cool page!)
But that's a lot more work, while we need this new page fairly quickly (since I
realized the Help menu connects directly to it, and it doesn't function properly
in that role, as it is).
Patrick had another idea along that same line. He had suggested the main steps,
and then sort of hiding the descriptions under an expand/contract triangle
button labeled "Details". I guess I would not want stuff hidden, because people
in a hurry won't bother to open it.
But anyway, I'm happy to make the page, as long as it's something I'm capable of
doing. Exactly how it's done is not important to me. The most important thing
is that it's very easy to read, very clear, yet having all the important points.
I would be happy with either the Normal Template (first draft) or Table of
Contents template (2nd draft). I'm not sure how the side panel would be an
improvement, unless I'm just not seeing what Martin is thinking.
I guess at this point, we need some input from Patrick (who has been busy, but
will eventually catch up).
All best,
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: docto...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 3:08 PM
To: brynn ; inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net ; Maren Hachmann
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] major update to Report Bugs page
Hi Brynn,
An example page would be the sponsors page:
https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/sponsors/
Martin,
On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 21:23 -0600, brynn wrote:
I'm not sure if I know what a sidebar page is. I thought he meant
the table of
contents.
Well I see how to make such a page, but I don't know what it's
supposed to look
like. Do you know any pages which use that template? Maybe seeing
one will
give me an idea what to do.
If there's a chance that changing the template will cause a problem,
I could
just create another page, and move the contents over.
Thanks,
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Maren Hachmann
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 6:03 AM
To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] major update to Report Bugs page
Sorry, that intermediate email that's quoted below never made it into
my
inbox...
A page with a side panel can be selected when you select a new
template
for the page.
Page > Templates > Side Bar Page
I don't know what Martin meant to put into the side bar.
Might be that changing the template will loose the contents again
(changing back might restore it).
Maren
Am 26.07.2018 um 05:56 schrieb brynn:
> Ok, did I do the table of contents template correctly?
>
> https://inkscape.org/en/report-bugs-2-edit/
>
> Thanks,
> brynn
>
> -----Original Message----- From: brynn
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:39 PM
> To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net ; Maren Hachmann
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] major update to Report Bugs page
>
> OMG! I don't know what happened. The last time I looked at it,
> which was
> shortly before I sent the original message, everything was fine!
>
> No, I did not try to change the template. I've actually been
> offline
> since my
> last reply, so I have no idea what might have happened.
>
> There was some kind of problem with the site, during the time I was
> working on
> the page (when emails had been disabled, because of a suspected
> security
> issue).
> A couple of times, I had to try twice to publish, where it didn't
> go
> through the
> first time. I don't know if that would be related to the security
> issue or
> not....or if that could have erased the edit mode.
>
> Should I go ahead and replace the contents in Edit mode? Or should
> we
> try and
> figure out what went wrong first?
>
> Just to make sure I do the right thing, I need to choose Table of
> Contents from
> the dropdown menu, right? That's what Martin means by "side panel"
> isn't it?
>
> Thanks,
> brynn
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Maren Hachmann
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 6:59 PM
> To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] major update to Report Bugs page
>
> The page seems to be empty right now in edit mode (I was shocked a
> bit,
> when I visited it and it was empty - in published mode, it's still
> there, just made a copy, just in case...), but it's using a Normal
> template.
>
> What happened? Was the contents lost on changing the template?
>
> Maren
>
> Am 22.07.2018 um 16:12 schrieb brynn:
> > I thought it was using the Normal Page template. At least that's
> > what I
> > was trying to do. I was just going to copy that and paste it
> > into the
> > already existing page, overwriting it. If it's not the Normal
> > Page, I
> > might need some help with that.
> >
> > I would definitely need help with the sidebar layout. Maybe
> > Patrick
> > knows how? He said he'd be busy this week, so moving it won't
> > happen
> > immediately, either way.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > brynn
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: docto...@gmail.com
> > Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 6:59 AM
> > To: brynn ; Inkscape-Docs
> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] major update to Report Bugs page
> >
> > Hi Brynn,
> >
> > The content to the page looks good overall.
> >
> > CMS wise, the page should use either the Normal Page, or the
> > Sidebar
> > Page as the template. This is because we can't see for sure what
> > it
> > will look like with an 'inherit' setting which picks a blank
> > page.
> >
> > I'd also encourage the use of the sidebar template as it's been
> > very
> > useful for functional pages where detailed content goes in the
> > main
> > left side part and action buttons go on the right sidebar to make
> > it
> > easy to quickly move.
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens
> >
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