On 01/21/2018 at 15:47 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: >> >>> It seems unfortunate to me that we have one shared website for GuixSD >>> and Guix. As much as I love GuixSD, I think Guix is the main “product” >>> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite. That’s primarily >>> because GuixSD can be explained in terms of Guix, but explaining Guix as >>> “the package manager we use for GuixSD” seems less helpful. > […] >>> My proposal is to keep https://gnu.org/s/guix focussed on Guix the >>> functional software environment manager, and have the distro under >>> https://gnu.org/s/guix/distro. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> In principle I think it’s a good idea. In practice I’m not sure what >> this would look like, though. >> >> For instance, does that mean /distro would be a “second home page”, with >> screenshots, contacts, blog entries, baseline, and all? Or would it be >> different? What would be remove from or add to the actual home page? > > I think of /distro as just a leaf page, not a whole website on its own. > > - The logo in the menu bar should be the Guix logo. The GuixSD logo > could be shown in the contents of the /distro page. > > - The menu should probably have an item for GuixSD > > - The screenshots are applicable to GuixSD only, in my opinion, so they > don’t make much sense on the Guix home page. I guess we could have > Guix-only text “screenshots” to show the command-line user interface. > > - I’d remove the “All packages” button from “Discover GuixSD” > > - “GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros” is a great section that should > link to the Guix package manager’s home page. > > - I would remove the blog, contact, and “GuixSD and GNU Guix in your > field” sections from the distro sub-page to avoid duplication. > > - The two sites should have separate Download sections. > > … and as I imagine these changes I become confused about how to link to > these two download pages. Having a single “Download” link at the top > bar would not work when we want to offer separate pages for GuixSD and > Guix. We could have /distro/download, which would be linked from the > /distro page, just like we currently have /download linked from right > after the introduction. It would have to be a very prominent button, > shown “above the page fold” so that we can drop the “Download” item > from the menu bar. > > The download page for GuixSD should offer the GuixSD options first and > link to the Guix download page ater the options — and vice versa. > > (I’m not as sure about these proposed individual changes as I am about > the proposal to separate the pages for Guix and GuixSD.)
ISTM this difficulty in splitting the content across two pages is a reason to consider again how to unify the presentation of Guix/GuixSD.
