[Mageia-webteam] Missing link to forums

Tue May 31 11:58:59 CEST 2011

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:46, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2011/5/31 Romain d'Alverny <rda at mageia.org>:
+>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:06, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>> 2011/5/31 Romain d'Alverny <rda at mageia.org>:
+>>>>
+>>>> Ok, reinstalled these in the nav bar before a wave rises; however,
+>>>> that doesn't make it less messy. Community is much more than just the
+>>>> forum, that's the whole project.
+>>>
+>>> Romain, I know that, but you spelled it out nicely: "before the wave rises".
+>>> What does that mean? It means, that there is a demand, be it messy or
+>>> whatever, we can not argue against the demand of users.
+>>
+>> Oh yes we can. :-p That's called finding a better solution. It's just
+>> that, at this very time, I have in no way the time and energy to
+>> handle a (heated or not) discussion about that. :-)
+>
+> No, you can't.
+> Of course you may win any discussion and of course you can ignore
+> everything and just do what you want. And you may also call it any
+> name you want, in the end you have to listen to the user's demands.
+
+There are cases where there's a significant difference between what
+one demands and what one needs. And unless one doesn't challenge this
+difference, there's only incremental progress in sight; at best.
+
+>> Right, then in this very case, it's not the global nav that counts,
+>> but the availability of the link on the very first front page. :-)
+>
+> Well, yes, that would be essential, but having it in global nav would be better.
+
+The global nav (be it with one or two levels - and provided we still
+want one) is to appear on a large set of Web sites: blog, planet,
+forum, www, bugzilla, websvn, identity, ml archives, buildsystem
+dashboard, etc. - and that then, it must keep its relevance as a first
+level nav in all these contexts - and it needs a format/layout that
+works as well; our current layout aims for a concise nav.
+
+That's the point of the design/discussion doc I posted months ago and
+that I got no feedback about.
+
+Romain
+