Suggestion for new Yelp front page

[Andreas Lloyd]

Don Scorgie wrote:
> Thanks for the prod :)  I'd actually forgotten about this, sorry.
>
>   
No worries, so had we until we realized that Doc String Freeze was fast
approaching :-)

> I've put up a couple of preliminary screenshots at
> http://donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/UHC.png
> http://donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/UHC-1.png
> http://donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/UHC-2.png
>
> Is this the sort of thing you had in mind, or am I on the wrong track?
>   

This looks really good! I hadn't actually considered the new sidepane
offered by the new Yelp, so this is even better than what I had envisioned.

> Here, I've moved all the Ubuntu docs to the front page, moved the GNOME
> docs to the "Desktop", along with relevant categories.  Other stuff gets
> moved into "Applications".  The strings are placeholders and should be
> changed ;).  I also changed a couple of default strings to make more
> sense in this version (Welcome to Ubuntu Help Centre instead of GNOME
> help centre and old "Desktop" becomes "Home").  These can (as above) be
> changed to suite.
>   

This is pretty neat, though I think Home might should be renamed to
"Ubuntu Help" or even "Ubuntu Help Centre" - it is more self-evident
than Home, I think. Of course, the order of the docs needs to be fixed,
as you noted.
Also, the header for the Applications section should be something like
"Help for specific applications" rather than "Variety of other
applications" - but otherwise, it looks really, really good.
> If this isn't what you were thinking of, please let me know and I can
> rethink how to do it.  If it is to you're liking though, I can reuse
> some of the older patch for Dapper to make the docs appear in the
> correct order.
>   

Great! If you can set up the ordering of the Ubuntu docs in the way I
suggested earlier in the thread, then I would say that the front page is
all set for Edgy!

Thanks,

Andreas

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