Docs Meeting Update

[Yousuf Philips]

Thanks for the input. Will bring it up in Saturday's meeting. If you could
point to a button style you think we should mimic that would be great, or
select one from the list at bestcssbuttongenerator.com .


On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
wrote:

> I don't know if the language names need "spicing up", but if you insist, I
> guess you can look at introducing some kind of button style for the
> language links, ideally matching our website looks (other parts of the
> documentation follow our websites visual style as well).
>
> I acknowledge it's a common thing to use flags to represent languages, but
> IMO, it's bad practice.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
> On 7.5.2020 13.08, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>
> The language names are present below the flags and just having their names
> on a blank page doesn't look appealing. Any thoughts of how to spice it up
> if we were to only use the language names.
>
> It is quite common for flags to be used as language representatives, like
> for example in the keyboard layouts panel plugin as alternative for
> language name abbreviations.
>
> Regards,
> Yousuf
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:09 AM Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> My suggestion is to use the language names as they are representative of
>> languages. Or in other words, languages do not have any sensible
>> representative images, so I would not use any.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pasi
>>
>> On 6.5.2020 17.57, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>>
>> So what would be your suggestion and an image related to languages?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:34 AM Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Please, no flags for languages, as they are not representative.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Pasi
>>>
>>> On 5.5.2020 22.00, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>> Here is my idea of what the docs homepage could look like, in two
>>> variations.
>>> https://imgur.com/a/04nvIt6
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 5:11 PM Yousuf Philips <ypharis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>
>>>> We had the meeting yesterday which Sean, Bernardo, Stephen, and I
>>>> attended, where we discussed our plans to improve the documentation.
>>>> Various meeting minutes were put into the main google doc[1] and we plan to
>>>> meet once a week to discuss things to keep the pace of work going forward.
>>>> Each week we'll be working on a single docs page/chapter, in a google doc I
>>>> prepare, so that we all have a central place to collaborate on its
>>>> improvement, and can also reach out to the community to contribute to. At
>>>> each meeting we'll review the page's edits and finalize it and then it will
>>>> be copied over to the git repo.
>>>>
>>>> Sean will be investigating various options to make it easier for
>>>> contributors to help keep the docs up to date. A telegram group[2] has been
>>>> created for those that want to be involved and we can bridge it with a
>>>> #xubuntu-docs irc channel if there are those wanting it.
>>>>
>>>> So for this week, we'll be improving the main documentation homepage[3]
>>>> in this google doc[4]. During the meeting we agreed upon these changes
>>>> * As this page is not translated, the useful parts of the contents of
>>>> this page will move to the Table of Contents (ToC) page, so that it can be
>>>> translated.
>>>> * The page would become just a language selector which leads to the
>>>> translated ToC page.
>>>>
>>>> People can suggest ideas of how this language selector page can look in
>>>> the google doc[4] or on the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Yousuf
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGNc4nDmUkhk67-S07VKhOQ7tSWXUW6ureG8N7SVM_o/edit#
>>>> [2] https://t.me/joinchat/CVgtjBP82eyMqVzhScdfAw
>>>> [3] https://docs.xubuntu.org/2004/
>>>> [4]
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Aj_Wdj9Uq62Ju0bvjhz15NVdaI_SaAMo8xqdU9s67YE/edit#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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