Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

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On 01/21/2018 at 15:47 Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> 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 “product”
>>> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite.  That’s primarily
>>> because GuixSD can be explained in terms of Guix, but explaining Guix as
>>> “the package manager we use for GuixSD” seems less helpful.
> […]
>>> 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’s a good idea.  In practice I’m not sure what
>> this would look like, though.
>>
>> For instance, does that mean /distro would be a “second home page”, 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’t make much sense on the Guix home page.  I guess we could have
>   Guix-only text “screenshots” to show the command-line user interface.
>
> - I’d remove the “All packages” button from “Discover GuixSD”
>
> - “GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros” is a great section that should
>   link to the Guix package manager’s home page.
>
> - I would remove the blog, contact, and “GuixSD and GNU Guix in your
>   field” sections from the distro sub-page to avoid duplication.
>
> - The two sites should have separate Download sections.
>
> … and as I imagine these changes I become confused about how to link to
> these two download pages.  Having a single “Download” link 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 “above the page fold” so that we can drop the “Download” 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 — and vice versa.
>
> (I’m 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.