Revamping gnome-help style
Shaun McCance <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:30:16 -0500
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Hi all, I've been working on some style revamps for gnome-help for GNOME 40. It started with just getting rid of desc links, but it grew into a whole thing. Please take a look at this WIP MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/-/merge_requests/102 Current things I'm looking at: * Stop putting links in desc elements, because they make everything just way too dense and hard to navigate. * Along the same lines, stop using the "toronto" grid style that was largely designed around links in desc elements. * Put shorter titles in link trails. * Use curly quotes/apostrophes instead of straight quotes/apostrophes. * Stop putting icons in title elements, because they don't scale well and cause various problems. I have thoughts on putting a splash image on the front page, but haven't done much work along those lines yet. * Use a new experimental icon tile presentation for the front page of gnome-help (and possibly other prominent guide pages). I've named the style in yelp-xsl "experimental-gnome-tiles" to really drive home that this is experimental and I don't want other docs to use it. I want to be able to iterate on it quickly without worrying about how many docs I'm affecting. There are some screenshots in the MR. -- Shaun