From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2@gmail.com Subject: Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:54:59 -0500 Message-ID: <86zi53vm18.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87inc0gzoz.fsf@elephly.net> <863732wf9z.fsf@gmail.com> <87efmm70re.fsf@elephly.net> <87r2qm3rfv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2qj1d6o.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeE1Z-00045y-8A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:55:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeE1W-0004YM-4Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:55:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r2qj1d6o.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:47:27 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, sirgazil On 01/21/2018 at 15:47 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> It seems unfortunate to me that we have one shared website for GuixSD >>> and Guix. As much as I love GuixSD, I think Guix is the main =E2=80=9C= product=E2=80=9D >>> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite. That=E2=80=99s primari= ly >>> because GuixSD can be explained in terms of Guix, but explaining Guix as >>> =E2=80=9Cthe package manager we use for GuixSD=E2=80=9D seems less help= ful. > [=E2=80=A6] >>> My proposal is to keep https://gnu.org/s/guix focussed on Guix the >>> functional software environment manager, and have the distro under >>> https://gnu.org/s/guix/distro. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> In principle I think it=E2=80=99s a good idea. In practice I=E2=80=99m = not sure what >> this would look like, though. >> >> For instance, does that mean /distro would be a =E2=80=9Csecond home pag= e=E2=80=9D, with >> screenshots, contacts, blog entries, baseline, and all? Or would it be >> different? What would be remove from or add to the actual home page? > > I think of /distro as just a leaf page, not a whole website on its own. > > - The logo in the menu bar should be the Guix logo. The GuixSD logo > could be shown in the contents of the /distro page. > > - The menu should probably have an item for GuixSD > > - The screenshots are applicable to GuixSD only, in my opinion, so they > don=E2=80=99t make much sense on the Guix home page. I guess we could = have > Guix-only text =E2=80=9Cscreenshots=E2=80=9D to show the command-line u= ser interface. > > - I=E2=80=99d remove the =E2=80=9CAll packages=E2=80=9D button from =E2= =80=9CDiscover GuixSD=E2=80=9D > > - =E2=80=9CGNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros=E2=80=9D is a great sectio= n that should > link to the Guix package manager=E2=80=99s home page. > > - I would remove the blog, contact, and =E2=80=9CGuixSD and GNU Guix in y= our > field=E2=80=9D sections from the distro sub-page to avoid duplication. > > - The two sites should have separate Download sections. > > =E2=80=A6 and as I imagine these changes I become confused about how to l= ink to > these two download pages. Having a single =E2=80=9CDownload=E2=80=9D lin= k at the top > bar would not work when we want to offer separate pages for GuixSD and > Guix. We could have /distro/download, which would be linked from the > /distro page, just like we currently have /download linked from right > after the introduction. It would have to be a very prominent button, > shown =E2=80=9Cabove the page fold=E2=80=9D so that we can drop the =E2= =80=9CDownload=E2=80=9D item > from the menu bar. > > The download page for GuixSD should offer the GuixSD options first and > link to the Guix download page ater the options =E2=80=94 and vice versa. > > (I=E2=80=99m not as sure about these proposed individual changes as I am = about > the proposal to separate the pages for Guix and GuixSD.) ISTM this difficulty in splitting the content across two pages is a reason to consider again how to unify the presentation of Guix/GuixSD.