Yelp front page (was Re: Ubuntu Help compared with other help systems)

[Matthew East]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 10:21 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Don Scorgie wrote:
> > ...
> > Attached is a patch that adds a title to the top of the categories.   
> > In the patch, it reads as "This is a placeholder string" until wording  
> > is decided (if you decide to use the patch).  It replaces the other  
> > patch.
> >
> > As before, screenshot at:
> > http://donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Screenshot-Help-Topics-with- 
> > title.png
> > ...
> 
> If this order is retained, I'd prefer "The following are other document  
> sections available:" to be shortened to "Other help" (with no colon).

Right, we can talk about the wording later, as Don said.

> Also, regardless of order, all phrases of the form "The ______ Guide is  
> an introduction to" should be deleted. They're redundant.

Funnily enough, yesterday I had a similar thought and deleted "The ____
Guide is an" from each of these. We can remove the "introduction to" as
well, if people don't like it.

> Anyway, it's great that you're trying out new ideas, but I don't think  
> this one is achieving much. The problem isn't the order of items on the  
> front page, it's that the wrong things are on the front page.

Right, it's far too late in the release cycle to solve this problem now,
and in my opinion, it needs to be solved upstream too.

Given that the front page content is not going to change, are you in
favour of switching the order and introducing a title for the other
document categories? The more people that reply to this question, the
better, for the purposes of evaluating whether we should use this patch.
I am tentatively in favour of the change.

(Preferably, the order of the documents would be: About Ubuntu, Desktop
Guide, Server Guide, Packaging Guide, but I think that it uses
alphabetical order so we may not be able to change this: Don?)

Matt
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