[Marble-devel] New website content for marble.kde.org (Amit)

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Amit,

On 25.10.2012 15:22, Amit Chaudhuri wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> Love the clean look of the landing page; especially the initial view
> of the globe (Planet earth etc).
> If I tab through the other images from the globe they all repeat
> eventually...except the initial view
> which happens to be my favourite!

There seems to be some order problem in the carousel when one uses the
buttons to navigate through the images. Additionally it does not
automatically start the rotation. I'll look into what's going wrong there.

>
> I come at this from a developer/decision maker point of view, so I'm
> interested in the "Extensible" bits.  I wonder if its worth taking a
> different tack there.  I quite quickly think about plugins in this
> space.  And also including the widget inside custom applications.  I
> get the impression that quite a few people are out there writing
> innovative plugins which I think is worth a mention.  Maybe have the
> view details button link off to an area which lists current plugins
> and some testimonials about widget use in apps.

Being a bit more technical in that section indeed makes sense. I put
that on my todo list.

>
> ** Extensible **
>
> blah blah.....
>
> There is a vibrant community of people writing plugins and apps using
> Marble.  Come and join us on IRC @ <> or maybe browse through some of
> the things people have done with marble by following the link below....
>
> View details >>
>
> * list of plugins *
>
> - satellites
> - postcodes
> - routing
> - earthquakes....
>
> * testimonals *
>
> etc..
>

Yes, looks good. Links to techbase and other resources should be in that
page as well.

Regards,
Dennis


> Regards,
>
> Amit
>