Re: Index page for projects.gnome.org

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:34:55PM +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Olav Vitters wrote:
> > I want the main page for projects.gnome.org to show a quick overview of
> > the information available in the DOAP files.
> >
> > I have a current example:
> > http://people.gnome.org/~ovitters/tmp/repositories.html
>
> Couple of design observations here...
>
>  1. You'd do well to differentiate between the project titles and the
> descriptions (using font size and possibly weight). It'll make it easier
> to read.

I used the <small> element (it is in HTML5 anyway), but doesn't make
much of a difference. Not all projects have a homepage link. In those
cases it looks a bit strange.

>  2. Increasing the vertical padding between each item will also help.

This I still have to figure out how to do nicely. An additional <br/>
seems a bit much. Help appreciated :)

>  3. If you do 1 and 2, you probably don't need the bullets.

I've removed the bullets and made the columns less wide. I still need to
right align the icons. Not sure how to do that nicely. Help appeciated :)

> I've done a _very_ rough mockup to show you what I mean [1].

Much appreciated! I've updated the example to look a bit closer (not
fully, having some issues) to your mockup. Suggestions (with HTML/CSS :P
) welcome.

One thing I forgot to mention: DOAP allows for multiple 'icons'. You can
have multiple homepages (it'll only link to the 1st one), as well as
multiple mailing lists, etc.

So I cannot really have all the icons exactly the same I think.. except
if I start using tables. I guess it doesn't really matter.

[..]
> > Anyway, I need some good icons for:
> >  * Bugzilla
> >  * Mailing lists (usually it'll link to a mailing list!)
> >  * Git (some version control icon?)
> >  * Download icon
> >
> > Icons/images should be small (prefer 16x), fit in the GNOME style and
> > have a good license. Can anyone help me with that?
>
> I've had a quick look through gnome-icon-theme. There are a few good
> possibilities [2, 3, 4, 5]. The last one is probably the most tenuous (I
> might get told off by the designers for icon abuse!) I'd be surprised if
> there isn't a Tango-style bug icon on the interwebs somewhere....

Cool! For now I've just linked directly to them, which makes the HTML a
bit massive.

Also, I'd like to only show projects which either have a
homepage/buglink/mailing list or a download page. But my XSLT skills are
a bit lacking for that. I can make it work with the current modules, but
want it ok in the theoretical case.

-- 
Regards,
Olav