More design disscussion ;)

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Saturday 19 October 2002 19:45, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Saturday October 19, 2002 10:28, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > reading the lots of mails, here again my (bit changed)
> > opinions/arguments:
> >
> > Some people seem to want that kde.org is a portal to the real content
> > holding *.kde.org/* pages, or ? Wouldn't the dual menu layout fit with
> > that need very much ?
>
> I think that layout wouldn't be good enough for a links page.  I think if
> www.kde.org/index.html is going to be a page of links, the design should
> be optimized for easy acces and navigation of the links, rather than
> shoving them off to the sides:
>
> --------------------------
>
> | Common Header          |
> |------------------------|
> | Brief KDE summary      |
> |------------------------|
> | Search                 |
> |------------------------|
> | Three | Link | Columns |
> |
> |
> |
> |------------------------|
> | Announcements          |
> |
> |
> |
> |------------------------|
> | Common Footer          |
> |------------------------|
>
> This layout is obvious quite different from the layout to be used by every
> other page, as this page focuses on the links itself, while for other
> pages the links are secondary.
>
> That is, *if* that page's focus is to be made the links (which I think is a
> good idea).
Sounds interesting, too.
But do you really think 2 links columns will make it more usable than 2 at the 
sides ?

>
> > In the end, the content on kde.org will be mainly,
> > as said by someone before: Some announcements, some news, that was it in
> > the end. You have a quick to find search function to search through
> > kde.org and that was it. That the content may be a bit squeezed on
> > little screen won't hurt that much for that bit of text. (And I don't
> > see the loose of usability for that, as for a portal it is much nicer to
> > have many links at once visible than to scroll down a lot to a least
> > view what you search for)
> >
> > The other pages will hold much more information, news, full
> > faqs/howtos/documentation, .... For them I surely agree that a one
> > (left) sided menu is much better, as it simply frees up space.
>
> Left is fine for the Hebrew, Arabic, or Farsi.  Right is better for
> English, German, or Japanese.
Don't you think that English, German or Japanese are used to left side menus 
much more than to right side menus, too ?

- -- 
Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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