devel-home/kdepim/pimpage

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Monday 14 July 2003 14:00, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 13:32, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Monday July 14, 2003 02:55, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > >
> > > Where is documentation how to use the stuff from the new framework? At
> > > a first attempt I wasn't even able to set up an environment to test the
> > > pages locally.
>
> How to set up such a local "mirror" or testing environment is described in
> some trivial steps at:
> http://www.kde.org/mirrors/web_howto.php

Thanks, that helped.

An additional question: What do I have to check out from the www module, if I 
only want to work on the pim pages and don't want to check out all of www?

> > > Why do you insist on people using the new framework for these web
> > > pages? It doesn't provide anything which makes it easier to maintain
> > > the content of the pages, so why not let people work the way they are
> > > more efficient?
>
> It makes it not worse than with your stuff and leads to:
>  - common style & navigation
>  - user chosable style sheets throught our whole www.kde.org "universe"

Compared with having useful and up-to-date content this is of only minor 
importance (if it's desirable at all).

>  - better i18n, ...

How does that work?

> Many people have put work into some common gui for the pages, why trash
> that now again just because somebody dislikes the "colors" or some minor
> other design issues ? If you want to improve the design, than make some
> proposals what we could enhance in the current includes. (I guess there is
> still some poll going on about the default style sheet for kde.org, or I am
> wrong jason ?

It's not about disliking colors, it's about having an own identity for the 
kdepim pages. With the global includes pages get way to uniform. That's ok 
within a site, but for separate sites that's more confusing than helpful (and 
it's boring). Maybe this could be improved, but I suspect that at the moment 
it's much more easy to use the pim pages in the old design in order to get 
some up-to-date content on the web than fiddling around with global PHP 
includes.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>