GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 727998
Revamp the landing page
Last modified: 2014-08-14 12:00:33 UTC
The current landing page has served us well so far. However, there are some limitations. It feels a bit thin in terms of content, and isn't particularly engaging. The landing page should be our store front - it should draw you in and present content in an inviting manner. The current landing page also has a few UI issues: * The button for the featured app at the top is inconsistent with the tiles below - it doesn't have a shadow and has a different hovered and clicked appearance. * Scaling issues, as described in bug 710634 (there's a separate discussion there which could be relevant for this bug). * The padding between sections and headings aren't quite equal. * Tile shadows could be a bit bigger and darker (Documents is a good guide here). I'm not sure whether it makes sense to put all of these issues together in one bug, but I thought it would be good to have one canonical bug to begin with. Here's a mockup for how we could address these issues: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/software/version2/hi-res-home-page-new.png Some of the changes: * Removes the "Featured" heading - it's superfluous. * Refines the position, size and weight of the headings. * Increases the number of tiles from 6 to 8. * Adds "More..." buttons - these would take you to a page with more tiles for these sections. * Changes the application tiles to be rectangular, and to include a star rating. * Introduces several sections of recommended applications. These are intended to change periodically, so we can present different sets of interesting applications over time. * Uses more interesting panels for the featured applications (this is bug 727997).
I'm working on this and landing individual changes one by one. > * Increases the number of tiles from 6 to 8. Not sure if we can do it at this point, since it requires changing the app icon size from 64x64 to 48x48, but the metadata only has 64x64 icons. Richard? > * Adds "More..." buttons - these would take you to a page with more tiles for these sections. Have you considered instead having huge < and > buttons on the sides to scroll to the next set of tiles?
(In reply to comment #0) ... > * Removes the "Featured" heading - it's superfluous. ... We might want to hold off on this one - there have been some reports that the banner can be confusing. Renaming it to "Featured Application" might help with this.
Most of this is now fixed. Huge thanks to Kalev - the landing page looks *much* better. Outstanding bugs can be tracked separately, like bug 734781 and bug 734782.