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Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top
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Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top |
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Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:54:59 -0500 |
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On 01/21/2018 at 15:47 Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> It seems unfortunate to me that we have one shared website for GuixSD
>>> and Guix. As much as I love GuixSD, I think Guix is the main “product”
>>> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite. That’s primarily
>>> because GuixSD can be explained in terms of Guix, but explaining Guix as
>>> “the package manager we use for GuixSD” seems less helpful.
> […]
>>> My proposal is to keep https://gnu.org/s/guix focussed on Guix the
>>> functional software environment manager, and have the distro under
>>> https://gnu.org/s/guix/distro.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> In principle I think it’s a good idea. In practice I’m not sure what
>> this would look like, though.
>>
>> For instance, does that mean /distro would be a “second home page”, with
>> screenshots, contacts, blog entries, baseline, and all? Or would it be
>> different? What would be remove from or add to the actual home page?
>
> I think of /distro as just a leaf page, not a whole website on its own.
>
> - The logo in the menu bar should be the Guix logo. The GuixSD logo
> could be shown in the contents of the /distro page.
>
> - The menu should probably have an item for GuixSD
>
> - The screenshots are applicable to GuixSD only, in my opinion, so they
> don’t make much sense on the Guix home page. I guess we could have
> Guix-only text “screenshots” to show the command-line user interface.
>
> - I’d remove the “All packages” button from “Discover GuixSD”
>
> - “GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros” is a great section that should
> link to the Guix package manager’s home page.
>
> - I would remove the blog, contact, and “GuixSD and GNU Guix in your
> field” sections from the distro sub-page to avoid duplication.
>
> - The two sites should have separate Download sections.
>
> … and as I imagine these changes I become confused about how to link to
> these two download pages. Having a single “Download” link at the top
> bar would not work when we want to offer separate pages for GuixSD and
> Guix. We could have /distro/download, which would be linked from the
> /distro page, just like we currently have /download linked from right
> after the introduction. It would have to be a very prominent button,
> shown “above the page fold” so that we can drop the “Download” item
> from the menu bar.
>
> The download page for GuixSD should offer the GuixSD options first and
> link to the Guix download page ater the options — and vice versa.
>
> (I’m not as sure about these proposed individual changes as I am about
> the proposal to separate the pages for Guix and GuixSD.)
ISTM this difficulty in splitting the content across two pages is a
reason to consider again how to unify the presentation of Guix/GuixSD.
- website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/17
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2018/01/17
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, George myglc2 Clemmer, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/19
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/24
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, myglc2, 2018/01/26
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/27
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, myglc2, 2018/01/27
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Pjotr Prins, 2018/01/27
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/28
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, myglc2, 2018/01/28
- Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Pjotr Prins, 2018/01/29
- RE: website: say what Guix is at the very top, Cook, Malcolm, 2018/01/29