Yelp TOC again

[Don Scorgie <DonScorgie Blueyonder co uk>]

Hi,

In the spirit of avoiding any actual coding or anything like that, I've
instead devoted some of my energies to making a mock-up of a possible
new table of content for yelp.

If can be viewed at:
http://www.donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/new-toc.html

The main features are: 
* Saner categories
All the categories listed on the left of the page and are in general
only 1 layer deep (except the command line stuff - below).

* A bit of blurb at the top of each category page
Ubuntu are currently looking at a patch that adds some description to
categories in the front page, so its possible.

* Command line help gains a search function
The red box in the mock-up.  The idea being that if people are looking
for a specific man / info page, they can put the name in there and yelp
fetches it.  If there's != 1 result, the results are displayed as a
search result.  (This doesn't work in the mock up).

There are various other things in there as well.  Only internal links
work.  Other links generally point to www.gnome.org, but it give some
idea.

Viewing it (as static html) in Yelp, it also looks quite nice.

Implementing it would take a bit of work.

The TOC.xml file would gain an extra field "description" - the blurb at
the top of the category and in generating each TOC page the list of top
level categories would need to be passed to the xslt.

The Command line help category might need a little bit of special code
to get the search bar in.  Also, the current categorisations (which are
a mess anyway) would need rethought a bit.

So, what do people think?  Worth considering?
Don