[RFC] Home page refresh

[Wichmann, Mats D]

bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:
> 
>> On 18 February 2010 12:53, Wichmann, Mats D
> <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com> wrote:
>>> In common to both designs is something I'm sure the design phase
>>> must have kicked around, but I find irritating, where you have three
>>> live elements for each of the three main actions, and that seems an
>>> awfully inelegant design to my silly brain. [...]
> 
>> Yes, I think we should just drop the icons and buttons and have the
>> heading.
> 
> I disagree again :-)
> 
> The existing design, with words *and* icons, works at multiple
> levels to
> convey the meaning. The front page of the project, in particular,
> needs to communicate its ideas effectively to a brain likely much more
> distracted than we can expect from, say, a brain looking at the
> documentation index. That rules out communicating important
> ideas solely
> through text, for example.


I was envisioning a somwhat smaller icon next to text, 
or next to text-inside-button.  My objection is not to the
combination of the two elements, which is smart, but the the
amount of vertical space consumed by stacking them all
above each other.  

The current mockup looks good to me, by the way - two 
instances seems fine when I look at it.