Re: web site

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:54:41 +0100
Stefan Ott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi again
> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:42:46PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>Just a thought.
> Okay, I corrected some minor details (please update your local copy if
> you like / agree with the changes, overwrite them otherwise), and I
> noticed the following issues which should/could be fixed (I'll gladly
> do the fixing myself after a brief discussion):
> 
>  - I'd prefer the list of available plugins to be sorted by name instead
>    of chronoligically - others?
>    ....
>    Or maybe, even better, create some kind of categories (system
>    monitoring, media, networking, ...) - would be easier to browse than a
>    never-ending list...

I agree with the idea of categories. I don't really like this "never-ending" list to.
I personnalt thought of something like:

NEWEST:
the 3 or 4 last panel plugins
All:
Categorie 1:                    Categorie2:
  xfce4-xyz-plugin                xfce4-12-plugin
  xfce4-abc-plugin                xfce4-23-plugin
  xfce4-de-plugin                 xfce4-34-plugin
  xfce4-fghi-plugin

Categorie 3:                   Categorie 4:
...

the idea of having the most recent before the rest is that people who 
already visited the site in the past would be mainly interested in the
last released and/or updated ones.

>  - Also, I'd preter the plugin name to be a link to the (corresponding?)
>    download section. The screenshot could be reachable via some kind of
>    cute little camera icon (or something like that). To see what I mean,
>    I created a little example (only the first couple of items are the
>    way I mean) on http://stefan.desire.ch/xfce/packages.html (I know,
>    the screenshot icon sucks, but it's the only one I could find - maybe
>    an eye would be better).
No objections. I also tought to make the name being a link to a page to the 
description of the plugin (note: we are speaking of the plugins, but it can 
also be true for the rest.) Having an icon near the name of the plugin is also 
a good idea

>  - How about removing (commenting out) the nonexisting parts / sections
>    of the website for the time being?
NO. Fill them instead ;)

>  - Should we really provide all that information on SVN? IMHO, the
>    people who don't know about "svn update" should not be running
>    svn-versions of the panel plugins...
The thing is that there isn't enough stuff in the realesed files section.
For example, we can sort the version of the packages depending on the xfce/panel/...
version.
But I don't think I provide too much information about svn. (People can be interested
in it)

>  - One little design issue: The left sub-navigation thing doesn't always
>    have the same width - might be nicerOA.
> 
Possible. I'm definitivly not a web designer...

> Those are just some thoughts I had. Feel free to disagree :)
> 
> Regards

Thanks for all,
Boutykiller