[Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

[Sean DALY]

let's not exclude the (high) probability that I am confused :-)

My memory of the XO G1G1 Browse page was that there was a link to
Help, but looking at it I see that there wasn't.

I'm remembering being offline, not being able to connect, then..
eventually... locating the Help Activity.

What I'm looking for is to avoid disappointment & discouragement
experiences with Browse if offline... perhaps it could be sufficient
to have a little text message? e.g.:

"To learn more about Sugar, open the Help Activity"

maybe not worth it to put the icon there if it's not clickable

thanks

Sean

P.S. ideally the logo could change colors "magically" like the site
homepage but I have no idea how easy/difficult that would be offline



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On 2 Apr 2009, at 08:03, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> Looks great!
>>
>> Any chance we could have a "Get Started" link under the logo linking
>> to a help file? I think the G1G1 local page had that?
>
> Hmmm, no "Get Started" page that I know about. I did start with the original
> OLPC page for reference, excluding the local library collections sidebar,
> the page covered:
>
>  - google search field (search the web)
>  - olpc wiki search field (find olpc materials)
>  - link to olpc wiki
>  - link to project tracker (trac)
>  - link to software repository (git)
>  - local schoolserver (http://schoolserver/)
>  - activities (activity wiki page)
>  - collections (collection wiki page)
>
> Isn't this kind of help covered by the updated FLOSS Help activity (i.e 1st
> class Activity rather than information hidden in default web page)?
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 Apr 2009, at 16:27, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Gary--this looks great! One small suggestion: could we bring the
>>>> logo down in scale to ca. 75%? That would look better...
>>>
>>> Hi Christian, here's a shot with logo down to ~75% of previous (and
>>> some minor tweaks):
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v3.png
>>>
>>> --G
>>>
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gary C Martin
>>>> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>> On 1 Apr 2009, at 05:52, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>> On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:40, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>> On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:59, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I really like this idea, "baseline" so first-time visitors won't get
>>>> lost between site sections
>>>>
>>>> Christian, would it be possible for you to put together that 1 page
>>>> linking to the different sections + Google?
>>>> FWIW: Assuming it's not being worked on yet, I just picked this ticket
>>>> up. Will post a screen grab to the list tomorrow for quick review/
>>>> feedback cycle.
>>>> Here's a quick first pass at a simple static page, please do fire
>>>> off  some feedback - FWIW, I'm not too keen on how the Google
>>>> treatment  clashes with SL logo, but it is a useful feature to have
>>>> on a home page:
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v1.png
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --Gary
>>>> --Gary
>>>>
>>>> Do we need the google logo for trademark reasons? Otherwise I would
>>>> just leave it out. It says 'Google' on the button already.
>>>>
>>>> Should I just drop it all together for now? I know we are used to
>>>> seeing it on the default OLPC XO home page, but it's not like we
>>>> thought it necessary to put Google search on www.sugarlabes.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would be nice to have a link to our bug tracker as well - maybe just
>>>> named 'Bugs'.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, here it is with the extra link and dropping the Google logo
>>>> (but keeping the Google search inputs):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v2.png
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of course - ideally this page would be translated :/ We can do that
>>>> for 0.86 then I guess :)
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --Gary
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>  Simon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> anything at christianmarcschmidt.com
>>>>
>>>> http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com
>>>>
>>>> 917/ 575 0013
>>>
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