Re: Comments on hardware layout

[Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:09 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Goals:
> * Make guides more compact and easier to scan. I want people
>   to spend as little time as possible on guide pages.
> * Trim down those links trails. Especially when we get guide
>   pages linked from guide sections of essentially the same
>   name: "Hardware > Printing >> Printing >>"
>
> So I took a stab at using the grid ("toronto") layout on the
> hardware guide page. This is the same thing I did on prefs.
> It's not done. I'm not sure what to do with some pages.
>
> Using the grid layout with links in descs gives us, I think,
> a nice way of promoting some subtopics without introducing
> extra link trails and guide links and navigational craziness.
>

I think it is an improvement, but I feel like I need to think about it more. Make sure that it is fixing the problem.

Jim