From the minutes of the openSUSE wiki team meeting, in the weekly news 95, I got a sneek peak at the new portal. Portal New - openSUSE Personally, I think it looks very sleek and nice and easy to navigate. You can read the rest of the minutes yourself here: [opensuse-wiki] Wiki Team Meeting 091030 - Meeting Minutes](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2009-11/msg00005.html)
They are seeking participants, so please jump in. This is one way you can contribute to openSUSE.
Looking nice. It’s a nice layout, easy on the eye and clear to follow.
Looks nice, overall, but the hard line of the grid are kinda annoying.
Also, how “squashed” is it going to get with the description of the Categories. May be able to save horizontal space by putting the title under the icon. Just want to try and avoid the icon/title and links on the right being along the top of the cell while the Description column flows a long ways down.
Just my thoughts.
> Just my thoughts.
more:
the word “download” should appear somewhere on the front page
put the “alphabetical index” at the top
arrange the other according to the alphabet:
–Applications
–Community
–Developer
–Documentation
–Downloads
–Images
–Meetings
–News
–Tips & Tricks
–Wiki
just my initial thoughts…not trying to drive anything.
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On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:56 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
> From the minutes of the openSUSE wiki team meeting, in the weekly news
> 95, I got a sneek peak at the new portal. ‘Portal New - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Portal_New) Personally, I think it looks very
> sleek and nice and easy to navigate. You can read the rest of the
> minutes yourself here: ‘[opensuse-wiki] Wiki Team Meeting 091030 -
> Meeting Minutes’
> (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2009-11/msg00005.html)
>
> They are seeking participants, so please jump in. This is one way you
> can contribute to openSUSE.
>
>
I fear it will be bad if the Description column gets filled in.
Personally, I’d either javascript popup the description on hover or
use alt text for it. More interested in seeing the Category
and Items. I think most will figure things out without the
need for a “description”.
Maybe AJAX?
Will be done …this just a test !! 
This was on my mind too. Take a look at the menu on Novell side.
Another option would be doing 2 rows for each category.
The top row could have multiple columns while the second row can be the description and span across all of the columns in a small~ish font.
That way the horizontal doesn’t get pushed, and depending on how it is written, the text will flow across and not take too much vertical space.
+------------+------------+
|..name/icon.|...subcat...|
+------------+------------+
|.......description.......|
+-------------------------+
> I think most will figure things out without the
> need for a “description”.
well, if history is any indicator that may not hold true (i offer as
evidence the large number of people who ask questions about installing
in the forum to make suggestions about the forum…or questions about
networking in hardware…etc etc etc…even though there is a very
good description for each fora…
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Those of you that would really like to have your feedback heard, should join the openSUSE Wiki mailing list. I certainly appreciate the feedback, but all that does little good here. opensuse-wiki+subscribe at opensuse.org Also see here: Wiki Team - openSUSE
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team#Mail_List)
i wonder, how many have joined the mail list since this thread began,
yesterday?
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To my understanding, none.
> To my understanding, none.
not possible…i joined…
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Me too…
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:36 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
> Those of you that would really like to have your feedback heard, should
> join the openSUSE Wiki mailing list. I certainly appreciate the
> feedback, but all that does little good here. opensuse-wiki+subscribe at
> opensuse.org Also see here: ‘Wiki Team - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team#Mail_List)
>
>
I might… but maillists? I have TOO many already. If only there
was a newsgroup for this…
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:04:56 +0000, cjcox wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:36 +0000, Jonathan R wrote:
>> Those of you that would really like to have your feedback heard, should
>> join the openSUSE Wiki mailing list. I certainly appreciate the
>> feedback, but all that does little good here. opensuse-wiki+subscribe
>> at opensuse.org Also see here: ‘Wiki Team - openSUSE’
>> (http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team#Mail_List)
>>
>>
>>
> I might… but maillists? I have TOO many already. If only there was a
> newsgroup for this…
I’ve been meaning to take some time and set it up on gmane - but anyone
can do that if someone else wanted to.
Jim
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Hi
It’s there already since 10/26 by the looks
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> I might… but maillists? I have TOO many already. If only there
> was a newsgroup for this…
use Thunderbird for both and you can’t see or feel the difference, add
the fora that way it is a smooth no storm wave hop from the email-boat
to maillist-boat to forum-boat, to the newsgroup-boat to . . .
ultra-smooth user experience, and way cool
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not know, yet)
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