With all this talk of fancy looking new websites, I decided to take a crack at being artsy and coming up with a fancy-looking logo to put on it. Here's a first rough draft:
https://people.freedesktop.org/~jekstrand/gears-logo-bold.png It's not great but it turned out better than I expected. That version looks good on a light background but it could probably be tweaked to look good on dark/black if we want. --Jason On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 2018-05-31 21:33:16 -0400, mesa-dev-bounces@lists. > freedesktop.org wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Jordan Justen > > <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> wrote: > > > On 2018-05-31 16:06:13, Laura Ekstrand wrote: > > >> A little bit of messing around this afternoon, led to this: > > >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rteTv9415XEMN1E11fyN0l3hTUCCb > gwz/view?usp=sharing > > > > > > Nice. That confirms we can easily get back to a something closer to > > > the older look in short order. (Unless the consensus is to actually > > > stay with the generic look.) > > > > > >> The gears are from Font Awesome, which comes with the RTD format. > > > > > > It'd be nice to get the icon back, but the gear glyph is an > > > improvement compared to the house glyph. > > > > > > Anyway, I stick by what I said below too in reply to Eric about > > > withdrawing my feedback. > > > > my $0.02 (which is probably worth even less when it comes to the topic > > of aesthetics), Laura's new proposal looks much nicer than generic rtd > > which looks better than current site.. > > > > I mostly don't want to get a much needed infrastructure/process > > improvement derailed with a bikeshed discussion about themes. Nothing > > against playing with theme options and seeing what people (with better > > taste than me) like, just don't want that to be something that derails > > the bigger picture ;-) > > Entirely agreed. I also think the old style was distinctive and had > become part of the "personality" of our website, and I would like the > new website to look similar, but this is a minor detail that we can > trivially alter later. > > For now let's focus on the infrastructure changes, discussing the style > can be done in parallel or later, but shouldn't block this. > > > > > BR, > > -R > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -Jordan > > > > > >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Jordan Justen < > jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > On 2018-05-31 12:27:04, Eric Anholt wrote: > > >> > > Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> writes: > > >> > > > > >> > > > On 2018-05-24 17:37:09, Laura Ekstrand wrote: > > >> > > >> A few of the commits are quite large and awaiting list > approval. I > > >> > suggest > > >> > > >> that you take a look at the code here: > > >> > > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ldeks/mesa/tree/website1_75, > > >> > > >> and the new website here: https://mesa-test.freedesktop. > > >> > org/index.html > > >> > > > > > >> > > > I think the theme should be changed to look somewhat close to > the > > >> > > > current mesa3d.org website before changing the main site. > (Color > > >> > > > scheme and missing icons.) > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Right now the test website looks like a million other sphinx > websites, > > >> > > > including every readthedocs book. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Based on http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ and > > >> > > > https://www.python.org/, I would say sphinx gives a lot of > > >> > > > opportunities for a custom look. > > >> > > > > >> > > I think looking like a generic other sphinx website is a step > forward, > > >> > > and I look forward to this series landing. No need for > continuity with > > >> > > the old theme. > > >> > > > >> > I think it is 1 step forward, 1 step back. As no else appears to > > >> > agree, I'll withdraw my feedback. > > >> > > > >> > -Jordan > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mesa-dev mailing list > > > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > mesa-dev mailing list > > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
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