tabs for the new help site

Venkat Raghavan V.C. venkatraghavan at gmail.com
Tue May 23 23:06:57 UTC 2006


> > However, Henrik mentioned this evening that they are too big (in terms
> > of length), and I agree. The alternative would be to remove the
> > codenames (making them 5.10, 6.06 LTS, Community Docs). This would also
> > be consistent with the decision which appears to have been taken
> > recently to remove all reference to codenames from the distribution[2]
>
> To be honest, the width looks fine to me, but I'd have to defer to the
> web professionals as to what too wide would be for most people.

I thought the current tabs are good until i tried this:

| 5.10 (Breezy Badger) | 6.06 (Dapper Drake) | Community Docs |

Next version: (Breezy will still be supported)
| 5.10 (Breezy Badger) | 6.06 (Dapper Drake) | 6.xx (Edgy Eft) |
Community Docs |

Next +1 Version:
| Older Versions | 6.06 Dapper Drake | 6.xx Edgy Eft | 7.xx Flashy
Fish | Community Docs |

You get the idea: Dapper is going to be around for a long long time,
and we will definitely run out of space, so we might as well be
prudent now.

> What do people think? Corey is concerned that people may not understand
> the version number, although on the other hand Venkat mentioned that his
> experience is that people looking for help are familiar with the version
> numbers rather than codenames, and I have to say that my (limited)
> experience is similar.
Most of the people who download the iso/get the shipit know the
version number (http://www.ubuntu.com/download) , so I doubt that this
will be an issue.


> Us have a quick consensus? Never! ;-)
Amen!

Venkat




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