New digikam website source available from KDE's git server

Mick Sulley mick at sulley.info
Thu Mar 30 11:47:32 BST 2017


It looks good and the bits I tried seem to work.  The only real 
criticism is that I don't see a search option.  Other than that the 
banner on the top of the old site looks better than the plain top on the 
new one, but I can't get too excited about that.

Mick

On 30/03/17 09:57, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some tunes have been done on :
>
> https://staging.digikam.org
>
> ...and the beta version become suitable. It's not yet complete of 
> course but for a first try, it's not to bad. This give also a global 
> vision of how the new digiKam web site layout will be displayed.
>
> Please take a look and comment. Thanks in advance
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-03-30 5:10 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com 
> <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>:
>
>     I like the simplified layout of contents.
>     Can you try to generate a test version by staging.digikam.org
>     <http://staging.digikam.org/> ?
>
>     Best
>
>     Gilles Caulier
>
>     2017-03-29 23:29 GMT+02:00 Pat David <patdavid at gmail.com
>     <mailto:patdavid at gmail.com>>:
>
>         I'm starting to feel a little partial to something like this
>         one: http://imgur.com/PwBqHxw
>
>         On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:45 PM Gilles Caulier
>         <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Yes, mock-up sound good for me.
>
>             Gilles Caulier
>
>             2017-03-29 21:34 GMT+02:00 Pat David <patdavid at gmail.com
>             <mailto:patdavid at gmail.com>>:
>
>                 I was tinkering with some ideas today, and I thought I
>                 would push them out to share... :)
>
>                 http://imgur.com/a/Ledq9
>
>                 The theme will be dark, no worries. ;)
>
>                 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:14 AM Dmitri Popov
>                 <lazylegs at gmail.com <mailto:lazylegs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Thank you for the great work so far, Mica! I'll
>                     start working on the
>                     content ASAP. Meanwhile, a couple of quick thoughts.
>
>                     - As Gilles said, a dark theme would be much better.
>                     - The template definitely needs a good header.
>                     - The Download link in the navigation bar should
>                     be more prominent. It
>                     might be even better to add a download button to
>                     the right sidebar.
>                     - The digiKam item in the left corner of the
>                     navigation bar is unnecessary.
>                     - The digiKam Recipes Book and Donation links
>                     don't work right now.
>
>                     That's all for now. :-) Keep up the great work!
>
>                     Best,
>                     Dmitri
>
>                     On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:35 AM, 
>                     <mica at silentumbrella.com
>                     <mailto:mica at silentumbrella.com>> wrote:
>                     > Greetings all,
>                     >
>                     > I've pushed the migrated website to the KDE git
>                     server. The content should
>                     > be there, but I welcome anyone willing to help
>                     check it out before the
>                     > drupal site is retired. While Pat and I have
>                     done our best to preserve all
>                     > of the content, nothing is perfect; things like
>                     checking links and making
>                     > sure pages important to you are still there need
>                     to be done.
>                     >
>                     > The site is built using hugo (https://gohugo.io)
>                     and is available as a
>                     > single, pre-built binary.
>                     >
>                     > To view the site locally:
>                     > 1. Download or install hugo v0.19 and put the
>                     binary in your path
>                     > 2. Check out the website source from git clone
>                     > git://anongit.kde.org/websites/digikam-org
>                     <http://anongit.kde.org/websites/digikam-org>
>                     > 3. cd /path/to/digikam-org
>                     > 4. In a terminal, run the command "hugo serve"
>                     (no quotes).
>                     > 5. Open a web browser and go to
>                     http://localhost:1313
>                     >
>                     > If you'd like to modify the theme:
>                     > 1. cd digikam-org/themes/hugo-theme-digikam/scripts
>                     > 2. npm install
>                     > 3. bower install
>                     > 4. npm run server
>                     > 5. cd digikam-org
>                     > 6. hugo serve
>                     >
>                     > I'd like to make the gulp task for "npm run
>                     server" run hugo in the
>                     > digikam-org root instead of in
>                     digikam-org/themes/hugo-theme-digikam/ but
>                     > have not found time to do so.
>                     >
>                     > I'm working on making it easy to translate the
>                     site, there are strings in
>                     > the i18n folder. You can see the hugo website
>                     for more information about
>                     > running hugo and
>                     digikam-org/themes/hugo-theme-digikam/README.md
>                     for a few
>                     > more useful npm commands to build the site. At
>                     some point these instructions
>                     > will get more detailed and be available on the
>                     digikam site.
>                     >
>                     > The theme currently lacks character and is very
>                     boring. We'll be working on
>                     > it and are open to suggestions.
>                     >
>                     > If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
>                     >
>                     > Best,
>                     > Mica
>                     >
>
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