Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-26 Thread houghi
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:59:38PM +0200, Christian Boltz wrote: [1] I did not check the full HTML source, but at least verified that positioning is done with CSS (and without tables) I wish they could do that with the rest of the page as well. Works a LOT easier. It would also make it

[opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Frank Sundermeyer
Hi, two weeks ago I promised to get more involved into the front page discussion. In order to have something to start with, I made a proposal that tries to bring the suggestions mentioned at http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/List_of_Proposal_Pages together: Splash screen for

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread jdd
Frank Sundermeyer wrote: Hi, two weeks ago I promised to get more involved into the front page discussion. In order to have something to start with, I made a proposal that tries to bring the suggestions mentioned at http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/List_of_Proposal_Pages together:

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:26:35PM +0200, Frank Sundermeyer wrote: Hi, two weeks ago I promised to get more involved into the front page discussion. In order to have something to start with, I made a proposal that tries to bring the suggestions mentioned at

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 two weeks ago I promised to get more involved into the front page discussion. In order to have something to start with, I made a proposal that tries to bring the suggestions mentioned at

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Frank Sundermeyer
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:29, houghi wrote: Hi, I don't like the idea of a splash screen. well, I am double-minded on this topic. I really don't know. I just made a splash screen because it was suggested. I still believe that first a cookie must deal with the language. If that is not

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:55:05PM +0200, Frank Sundermeyer wrote: So, sorry, but I will not implement _any_ language magic on opensuse.org. Just let the user decide which language he/she wants (this does _not_ imply that we need a splash screen, of course). Even though I do not agree, I

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:09:55PM +0200, houghi wrote: Not that I was just thinking of http://opensuse.org, not of any other This must have been I was just thinking of ... The above might be confusing. So to repeat and clearify: I just would do the language trick on http://opensuse.org (and

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread jdd
Frank Sundermeyer a écrit : So, sorry, but I will not implement _any_ language magic on opensuse.org. Just let the user decide which language he/she wants (this does _not_ imply that we need a splash screen, of course). this is good. and we need a splash screen, because: * the english wiki

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread jdd
It seems that it will be very difficult to find a form that anybody like. so I want to enphasis to the following statement: I don't really mind of the form the front page have (color, size...) and I will follow any result Novell decide to use. However, I strongly think that things must be

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:37:19PM +0200, jdd wrote: * a agree with the fact that automatic redirection is evil :-() I completely and utterly disagree here. If my browser tells the website what language I use, why would I make the choice myself AGAIN? I have not yet heard anybody complain about

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-07-25 23:46:02 +0200, Christian Boltz wrote: and http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Sample_Splash.png) are we putting the project into a grave or why the black background? i think the placing of the links should be doable with _html_ and _css_ the round placing will be pain in the a**.

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Rajko M
houghi wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:09:55PM +0200, houghi wrote: Not that I was just thinking of http://opensuse.org, not of any other This must have been I was just thinking of ... The above might be confusing. So to repeat and clearify: I just would do the language trick on

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread Rajko M
Frank Sundermeyer wrote: Hi, two weeks ago I promised to get more involved into the front page discussion. In order to have something to start with, I made a proposal that tries to bring the suggestions mentioned at http://en.opensuse.org/Frontpage_redesign/List_of_Proposal_Pages

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:50:09PM -0500, Rajko M wrote: The language automatic redirect is good for 100% monolingual people, and it is not for any other. I was probably one that was really unhappy with last language preference selection on www.novell.com (year or two ago). The issue with

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Front Page Redesign: New Proposal

2006-07-25 Thread houghi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:46:02PM +0200, Christian Boltz wrote: I agree that any magic based on the AcceptLanguage browser setting or alike is evil. While my browser says that I prefer german, I mostly visit en.opensuse.org because it is the most complete wiki. I visit that as well. As long

[opensuse-wiki] front page redesign - the HUB (opensuse.org)

2006-05-07 Thread jdd
I really think your are right saying we must go ahead on this subject, so I will try to separate it on smaller chunks :-) The first thing we _must_ do is a hub page, viewable on opensuse.org (without any en, fr...). We need this badly because our goal of making an international distribution,

[opensuse-wiki] front page redesign - localized wikis main page - sidebar

2006-05-07 Thread jdd
==Sidebar== The sidebar has two parts we can't really play with: tool box and others langages. we must limit the ohers menu entries to sgnificant ones (remember: keep it simple) the french wiki: http://fr.opensuse.org/Bienvenue_sur_openSUSE.org gives an idea of what I propose. but it's not that

[opensuse-wiki] front page redesign - localized wikis main page - right column

2006-05-07 Thread jdd
the right column looks nice for me, no need to change howaver we need a sort of source for more locals info, may be a forth part, at the bottom (local news?), but only if we can find info to set in it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Nights Days WAS: Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread noniko
vampire? sun allergy? newlywed neighbours? or are you a connoisseur of the famous Brussels nightlife? c'mon, come out of the closet, let us know! My reason is simple: I am live in the far east. This is what I regret, it's difficult for me to attend a real time net meeting (chat, IRC...) in the

[opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread noniko
Great. Perhaps some SUSE people here can give you some pointers and extra information on whom to contact internally at SUSE. That way they might get use of the tools available for only SUSE/Noevell people. I am just guessing here. Perhaps Sonja can give some pointers. Ain't it great. openSUSE

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Nights Days WAS: Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread Andreas
Am Mittwoch, den 03.05.2006, 15:26 +0900 schrieb noniko: My reason is simple: I am live in the far east. Sunny hot California here. This is what I regret, it's difficult for me to attend a real time net meeting (chat, IRC...) in the world-wide community. I admit I didn't attend any

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread Peter Flodin
On 5/3/06, houghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me not a good thing, but it seems I am the only one who cares about it and/or thinks that each first page should have the same content and layout. So this will be my last comment on it (unless others suddenly plan to get into the discussion) It is

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread jdd
noniko wrote: The most thing I'm afraid of is separated or disconnected multiple entrances of openSUSE for Japanese users. I think not bad of multiple entrances, but they must be connected each other. Otherwise, Japanese users are confused where to get or post the information on openSUSE.

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread jdd
Peter Flodin wrote: On 5/3/06, houghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my belief that it is stated that the English wiki is the project master, and all important pages should be kept in synch by the language maintainers. true. but kept in sync mean nothing important must lack. and I very

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread noniko
Hi, jdd. think of goals, not image. The goal is to bring with us the more people we can. so localized wikis are aimed at all the guys that don't read english or don't like to see english rule the world. So get in the wiki all the stuff you think Japan folks needs, don't ask at first if this

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:12:27AM +0200, jdd wrote: think of goals, not image. The goal is to bring with us the more people we can. No, The goals of the openSUSE project are: * Make SUSE Linux the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: Where do you get that number 650? specialpage:statistics jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:00:50PM +0200, jdd wrote: houghi wrote: Where do you get that number 650? specialpage:statistics On what are these stats based? e.g. am I calculated in these pages as well? I did a change on http://fr.opensuse.org/D%C3%A9clarer_un_bug (Completely by accident

Re: [opensuse-wiki] Contacting with Novell People:Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-03 Thread noniko
Hi, Where do you get that number 650? specialpage:statistics It seems interesting. Can I search also for Japanese members? I only grab the JA-team members, that is, only six! But there might be someone who doesn't write his name in Translation_Team page but giving his help in edit. Or

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread noniko
Hello, I am one who uses the language in so limited location. I would love to get an email when somebody does a change on http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs or on http://de.opensuse.org/Erstellen_einer_DVD_aus_den_CDs or on http://en.opensuse.org/JA-Making_a_DVD_from_CDs even though

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread houghi
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:26:40PM +0900, noniko wrote: Hello, I am one who uses the language in so limited location. I would love to get an email when somebody does a change on http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs or on http://de.opensuse.org/Erstellen_einer_DVD_aus_den_CDs or on

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread jdd
noniko wrote: One should edit at first the original(English) page if he would make a major change of the content. only a sysop can modify the front page (and I'm glad of this :-). SUSE employees are very busy making the new 10.1 and it's understandable they have litle time to give to the wiki

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread houghi
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:44:21PM +0200, jdd wrote: noniko wrote: One should edit at first the original(English) page if he would make a major change of the content. only a sysop can modify the front page (and I'm glad of this :-). Looking on the change done on the fr.* page it also

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: anyway I don't think I made a major change, only a cosmetic one. That can be a HUGE change when it comes to web pages. for me, a cosmetic change is a change nobody see when looking at the page two feets away :-) that is a small change. Changes that are made in the right column

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread houghi
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:14:52PM +0200, jdd wrote: for me, a cosmetic change is a change nobody see when looking at the page two feets away :-) I can see the difference beteen the en and fr frontpage from much farther away. :-/ By removing many main links, you have made it in a different page

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread houghi
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:23:03AM +0900, noniko wrote: Hello, today I went to fr.opensuse.org. I don't see any strange difference in design between fr and en pages. There are much less links on the left and an extra picture on the right, To me that means that there is less (or different,

[opensuse-wiki] Nights Days WAS: Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-02 Thread Andreas
Am Mittwoch, den 03.05.2006, 03:38 +0200 schrieb houghi: If my next reply is late, please excuse me! I live at night if you live in the daytime. The same for me. Only I realy live at night. houghi vampire? sun allergy? newlywed neighbours? or are you a connoisseur of the famous

[opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread jdd
Hello, I have made a quite significative -still not so visible- change to the front page at http://fr.opensuse.org. The french page being much less seen than the english one, it's a good place to test (I already asked the users they advice, will see the answer-and yours, I can go back). to

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread houghi
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:49:16PM +0200, jdd wrote: to summarise, I don't change anything in the layout. the goal was to make the hole page fit in 800x600 screen That is the wrong goal. I know you have been going on how SUSE should be workable with older PC's. The goal should howver be to make

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:49:16PM +0200, jdd wrote: to summarise, I don't change anything in the layout. the goal was to make the hole page fit in 800x600 screen That is the wrong goal. I know you have been going on how SUSE should be workable with older PC's. The goal should

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread houghi
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:52:14PM +0200, jdd wrote: ? I don't see what you mean. sidebar is of fixed height. the english one fills more than my 20 screen, and is not at all resizable - it's mostly unreadable. I think it is readable. It needs a lot of work, that is true. Especially the order

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: A scrollbar at the bottom. Seems to be gone now, Strange I didn't change at all the width of the page, anyway Not one, many more desagree. good info is little info, is not you get sunk no. I report french speaking events - for the others, the english page is there. And

Re: [opensuse-wiki] front page redesign

2006-05-01 Thread houghi
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:22:48PM +0200, jdd wrote: Not one, many more desagree. good info is little info, is not you get sunk Not always. You need correct information, not just a little. why not also japanese events? if you don't undeerstand english, why did you bother english meetings?