Re: GTK+ Website Review

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

muppet wrote:

Just including the list in the reply.

> On May 28, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Martyn Russell wrote:
>> Architecture
>>
>> GTK+ is based on three libraries ...
>>
>>     * Glib ...
>>     * Pango ...
>>     * Cairo ...
>>     * ATK ...
> 
> Makes me think, "Our chief weapon is fear.  And surprise.  Surprise and
> fear.  Our two main weapons are fear and surprise.  And ruthless
> efficiency. ..."   :-)

Woa, good catch :)

I added Cairo after that's how that happened.

> Under Language Bindings on the same page, i believe that gtk2-perl has
> had full support for 2.0 and 2.2 for quite some time now.

Yea, again, the content here is quite important to me, the information I
used from the old pages may have been grossly out of date in places.

Thanks, I will update accordingly.

> As a frequent user of the docs on the website, a long-time pet peeve has
> been that the table of API reference docs uses the same text for all of
> the links.  (online, online, online at http://gtk.org/api/, and View,
> View, View, View in your new one.)  That makes it rather hard to jump
> straight to a link when driving with the keyboard.

Yea, I agree actually, I couldn't think of a much better way of doing it
to be honest. Suggestions are welcome :)

> This brings up another point; i know there are a *lot* of pointers on
> the web to gtk.org urls like http://gtk.org/api/ and
> http://gtk.org/tutorial/ ...  Your new site doesn't have a /api, and
> instead puts everything into /documentation.html.  Any thoughts about
> backward compat for the links and structure of the old site?

Yes, I plan to include some redirections there. There are some other
backward compatible issues which the new pages don't show up which we
would need to have, such as:

 - http://gtk.org/setuid.html
 - http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6

These are the links which I gathered from my initial posting which need
to be sustained. If there are any others people have in mind, let me know.

>> * What are people's thoughts on the initial look and feel?
> 
> It's rather more spartan than i expected.  I do like low-bandwidth web
> sites, but a bit more color wouldn't hurt.  Also, gray-on-white text has
> low contrast, and gets hard on the eyes.

Hmm, OK, I will create another design and see what people think, perhaps
one with:

 - Black text
 - Blue selection headings (instead of Red)
 - Some more colour in other places, perhaps for headers.

> I hate to break it to you, but magic data pixies don't exist.

So the rumours aren't true? :P

-- 
Regards,
Martyn