4 Apr 2006 20:00
Yelp TOC again
Hi, In the spirit of avoiding any actual coding or anything like that, I've instead devoted some of my energies to making a mock-up of a possible new table of content for yelp. If can be viewed at: http://www.donscorgie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/new-toc.html The main features are: * Saner categories All the categories listed on the left of the page and are in general only 1 layer deep (except the command line stuff - below). * A bit of blurb at the top of each category page Ubuntu are currently looking at a patch that adds some description to categories in the front page, so its possible. * Command line help gains a search function The red box in the mock-up. The idea being that if people are looking for a specific man / info page, they can put the name in there and yelp fetches it. If there's != 1 result, the results are displayed as a search result. (This doesn't work in the mock up). There are various other things in there as well. Only internal links work. Other links generally point to www.gnome.org, but it give some idea. Viewing it (as static html) in Yelp, it also looks quite nice. Implementing it would take a bit of work. The TOC.xml file would gain an extra field "description" - the blurb at the top of the category and in generating each TOC page the list of top level categories would need to be passed to the xslt. The Command line help category might need a little bit of special code to get the search bar in. Also, the current categorisations (which are a mess anyway) would need rethought a bit. So, what do people think? Worth considering? Don
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