[Systems] wiki design

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:03 -0500, josh williams wrote:
> From what I could gather, Bernie was just making suggestions for what
> a site wide navigation could look like. I actually like Bernie's idea
> of making it more like google's universal nav. I think something like
> the following would work well:
> 
> 
> Home    Wiki    Download    Activities    More > 
> 
> The more link would be a drop down of all our other sub domains.

Me gusta! I'm sure it would be possible to make all the links show up in
a non-javascript, non-css enabled browser.

> 
> At any rate I'm almost done with http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/ 

Needless to say, I think your new skin is nice and neat. I spotted some
layout problems which you may or may not be already aware of:

 (1) the content pane is now laid out in fixed width, and takes up
     half of my screen.

 (2) the "page" tab is misaligned (too mich to the left).

 (3) I think the font for the links on the left is a little bit too big.

 (4) Tables are missing vertical and horizontal lines. Only happens on
     Chromium, works fine on Firefox. See:

      http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Platform_Components

 (5) Tables also overflow horizontally (although it might be
     caused by (1)).

 (6) there's too much empty space above and below the Sugar Labs logo.
     It might be caused by the other layout problems.

Note that I have a very high DPI display and therefore I configure my
browsers with bigger than normal fonts. Most sites survive this, but a
few break.

> - so any information on how to edit the main navigation would be
> very helpful.

As Frederic Grose already suggested:

 See sunjammer.sugarlabs.org:/srv/www-sugarlabs/wiki-devel/skins/ShikiWiki.php,
 and look for  <span class="pLinkbar"> at line 125.


>  We can push the changes without changing the main nav once I get
> finished bug checking, but I think leaving it as it is makes the wiki
> more confusing than it needs to be.

These two changes can be done independently, but I agree with you.

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