RFC: Home page design

[David Ingamells]

My 2 pence worth:

When I look (2009-09-15 7:30 CET) I do not have any problem with the 
font size - its possibly a big bigger than normal!

I do not have any problem with the width being fixed, although users 
with not much screen width might.

I do have a problem with the length. As it comes I only see down to the 
line with "Quick Reference Card" and have to scroll to see the rest. 
That bottom section is too important to lose it off the display like 
that.  I personally think it would be better to reduce the size of the 
qdiff image and reduce the section containing it so that the bottom 
section is fully visible without scrolling. Also the yellow section has 
lots of dead space at the bottom.

I have 1024 pixels height with a KDE toolbar along the bottom of my screen.

David.

Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/9/15 Wichmann, Mats D <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com>:
>   
>> Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>>> PS: also, why is this not using the full width of my window?
>>>>>           
>>> I think this is a more reasonable decision, to make the text be a
>>> sensible number of words wide rather than the full width of the
>>> screen.
>>>       
>> Fixed-pixel-width frames are an abomination.  They're really showed
>> up to their full... hmmm, I can't quite find the word I
>> want here, "loser-ness"???... when you fire up a widescreeen
>> monitor like my 1920x1080, and actually try to use more than a
>> small part of that width for your browser.
>>     
>
> I don't think it should be fixed in pixels.  But the point is, do you
> really want 50-word lines going across such a wide screen?  It's not
> very readable.
>
>