Re: [wgo] Skin work

[Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com>]

Quim Gil wrote:
> - Save a lot of links & words in the info blocks - PENDING  :)

I'm not totally sure what this means - are there just too many words in 
the blocks? Should I simplify them more?

> - Planet block - What about having a block on top of the events block
> consisting of header + a row of 6 hackergotchis with their name below,
> nothing else, plus an icon or link to the Planet. We need to depopulate
> the column otherwise we might end up getting the known disease of Column
> Larger Than Body.

I will give this a try; I didn't have an opportunity tonight so 
hopefully early this weekend.

> - News block - As said just the entries logo, title and date) is enough,
> not the content. It should be much shorter. 

I didn't have a chance to do this tonight either; I will do it next go.

> - Events block - Also the essential info only: title, place, dates and
> perhaps logo. Interesting the distinction this month / this year but
> it's risky since we can't assure events with GNOME presence all the
> months. I'd start easy.

Well... what if instead of the 'This Month' label, it said 'Next Event'? 
I kinda like the idea of all the details of the next upcoming  GNOME 
event being right there, and then a less-detailed queue of other events 
(could stay labeled 'this year') underneath. Does that seem reasonable?

> - Navigation - waiting the next mockup for comments. Note that with the
> current arrangement is pretty obvious that we just need a damn big foot
> + "GNOME" where now we have the small logo & GNOME (top) and the "GNOME
> Home:" (below).

There's a *lot* of navigation. Right now the tabs stand out a whole lot 
more than the very top navigation. Is this emphasis on the tabbed items 
correct?

> - GNOME block - I think this is it for now. We can polish details but
> it's not theme/skin dependent.

Okay. I got some feedback that it didn't stand out enough so I tweaked 
it a bit to be more noticeable.

> > > Yeh, I just ended up moving the planet from the main area to the side 
> > > because it's really not a whole lot of information - definitely not as 
> > > much as news or events
>
> news + planet + events = moving infos changing all the time. It makes
> sense to have them altogether. The rest is more static.

Makes sense.

~m