Re: Guix Oficial Website

[Luis Felipe López Acevedo]

On 2015-05-18 10:47, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello!

Hi, Andreas.

> The "mobile phone" part of the responsive design activates itself quite 
> early;
> personally, I am using a window that is a bit larger than half of my 
> laptop
> screen, and the mobile phone design looks weird. For instance, the menu
> consists of six large panes, stacked vertically, with just a tiny bit 
> of text
> ("Download", etc.) in the left corner, which takes at most 20% of the 
> width
> (while the full menu takes almost all of the height; so basically I am 
> sitting
> in front of a grey window with a bit of orange text in it). I would say 
> that
> the standard layout (with the menu items going from left to right in 
> one row)
> should be activated as soon as all the menu items fit. Maybe around 600 
> pixels
> of window width instead of around 1000, or even down to 500 or 400 
> pixels?

Yes, I agree. The current design discriminates between two ranges of 
screens only. So a new range could be added to avoid the too-much-menu 
issue in wide-enough screens.

> On the download page, the items are all arranged vertically, with lots 
> of free
> space to their sides. Maybe this is also why John is seeing so much 
> free space?
> In full screen mode, I have three columns, which is a good use of the 
> space.
>
> On the download page, I would make the logos and file names clickable; 
> then
> maybe the download button becomes superfluous altogether. And maybe 
> keep a bit
> more space between the items, or some kind of line; especially in phone 
> mode,
> it is a bit difficult to decide whether the "download" button belongs 
> to the
> item described above or below it (but the correct solution, the item 
> above,
> is the more intuitive one, so there is no big problem here).

Ludovic suggested before that we could make the download items more 
compact, and I agree. For example, instead of having one download item 
per architecture, we would have one item for GuixSD and one item for 
Guix, each of them listing the available download alternatives 
(architecture, source, ...). For example:

-------------------
GuixSD 0.8.2

USB installer of the Guix System Distribution.

Download for x86_64 (get signature)
Download for xi686  (get signature)
Download for ...    (get signature)

See installation instructions
-------------------

In this design, the clickable logos and names would not work, but the 
other changes you suggest do fit. I'm going to try this as soon as 
possible if people think is alright.

Thanks for the feedback, Andreas.


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