Start page for KDevelop 4

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Heyas!

  Thanks for the overwhelmingly positive responses, guys, this is a brilliant 
example of a community working well - seriously :) Even the negative comments 
were always with a positive twist, in that they were all constructive. Thanks!

  i've looked them through and tried to create an amalgamation of them and put 
them into html/css form. It is worthy to note that you need to view this in 
Konqueror, as parts of the thing requires things so far only available in 
khtml (and in some cases not even webkit, it looks slightly odd in Arora).

  There's three of these now, they're all the same html, just with two 
additional stylesheets added on top of the other.


http://leinir.dk/temp/kdev-startpage/index.html
The first thing a user sees upon starting the program. Tells the user a bit 
about the UI and such. i'm pondering if it might not be an idea to put the 
Possibilities box at the top, but thought i'd run it past you guys before 
doing anything with it (it's fairly straight forward, maybe fifteen minutes' 
worth of work, but still ;) ).

http://leinir.dk/temp/kdev-startpage/index2.html
If the user clicks on don't allow news, this is the view he'll get on the 
subsequent startups. Items moved around a bit, more central, and news pane 
hidden away.

http://leinir.dk/temp/kdev-startpage/index3.html
If the user clicks on allow news, this is the view he'll get... This is 
basically what you had before :)


A few noteworthy changes:

* Colours ;) Everybody seemed to agree on that, and well, so do i ;)
* News optional stuff. i wanted to do this before as well, but thought i'd
  throw it to you before doing anything to it, you know, feedback and such :)
* Links are underlined. As David Nolden pointed out, some controls that're
  buttons didn't quite look it. As buttons would look desperately out of
  place, i thought i'd make them look like links in stead :)

  A final idea, actually brought on by Kris' comment on not liking the news 
pane so much. The Possibilities pane could very well contain a link to the 
help system and the website, where such information could be managed in a 
pleasant way. An entry in the list such as "New to programming?" with a link 
to the KDevelop Tutorials page, or better yet, a page on kdevelop.org with a 
collection of appropriate links (to the tutorials page, to techbase's kde 
coding section and so on)

  Enjoy and comment! :)

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..Dan // Leinir..
http://leinir.dk/

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