Upcoming UI changes for UNR: Customizing Yelp's Home Page

[Kyle Nitzsche]

Hi Dougie,

The case where I did this work involved help home page content that was 
not based on the Ubuntu Help Center - it was completely 
different/original and written specifically for a netbook. So, that 
content and work does not directly apply to karmic UNR, which is a 
broader audience. However, I had to grapple with the question of how to 
do this, thus the email outlining an approach and some considerations.

Regarding the other bits: namely modifying yelp to use different content 
for its home page: unfortunately, this would need to be implemented and 
depends on the approach used in karmic UNR. I had coded some of the 
bits. In the end, we hid yelp's toolbar entirely, which handled the 
"Help Topics" button issue, but eliminated Search, Forward and Back, 
which is not optimal. And, we modified the yelp desktop file to point to 
the new help home page content. Thus, yelp was launched to show it, not 
the Ubuntu Help Center (which was effectively hidden).

Part of my goal with the previous email was to raise approaches that 
might make it much easier to make the yelp home page more easily 
customizable (for UNR and others) with a fully working toolbar. This 
would require additional discussion and some work, including probable 
coordination with upstream. Perhaps it is a topic that is suitable for 
the next UDS (although this does not address the short term questions 
the Karmic UNR team faces).

Cheers,
Kyle

Dougie Richardson wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> 2009/9/15 Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com>:
>   
>> Another way to approach this subject (which I have used) is to create a new
>> help content package for the home page and take a few steps to modify yelp
>> to treat it as the default home page. These yelp modifications, or some
>> version of them, could conceivably be implemented upstream to facilitate.
>> Here's an outline of the approach:
>>     
>
> This all sounds great Kyle - have you started this, if so you are
> welcome to integrate it with the current trunk (it's attached to the
> bug).
>
>