Re: Time to retire the Applications page?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 21:43 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> I recently took some time to make the GNOME website look good on HiDPI 
> monitors bug [1] branch [2]
> One of the pages on the main website I didn't fix yet though was the 
> Applications page [3], and I'm not sure certain it's worth the effort.
> When the Application page was first created, I had this idea of 
> showcasing a good selection of GNOME apps and that these would be 
> rotated on a somewhat regular schedule. The rotating didn't happen and 
> I'm not sure the current selection are the best showcases for our 
> platform. Some of the apps are still stuck on GTK2 (both GIMP and 
> Inkscape are unfortunately currently unusable on the same hidpi screen 
> that I wanted the website to work on due to that reason).
>
> At the same time, GNOME Software now allows us to highlight the best 
> free software out there _and_ allow people to actually easy install them!
>
> Several people have suggested just retiring the Applications page in 
> it's current form, and possibly try to highlight the new core 
> applications elsewhere on the website.
>
> Unless anyone have good arguments for keeping it, I'll take the page 
> down before the end of the week.
> Thanks!

I like the "Batteries included" section. Maybe we could re-purpose the
page to be about the "builtin" GNOME applications instead?

A little section about the various builtin applications would be less
likely to get out of date, and allow us to show our stock apps (weather,
clocks, videos, photos, etc.).