GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740304
Home page isn't very attractive / engaging
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:07:09 UTC
The home page that Yelp displays when first launched doesn't really draw you in or appear very attractive. There are a few reasons for this: the use of text with no images, the layout, the large number of topic items, the lack of preamble, and the nature of the content itself. This is a particular issue because Yelp is automatically launched the first time you log into a new GNOME installation. It's the first thing that you see. A while ago, I created some mockups for a new home page, which attempted to address these issues: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/help/help-start-2.png The three sections on the page are: 1. The existing getting started documentation. 2. A page, or set of pages, which describe what's new in the latest release. I had imagined that this could be a reformatted version of the release notes. 3. The existing user docs. The layout of each of the three boxes is modeled on gnome-software, which uses a combination of defined colours for the box backgrounds and some SVG assets. This allows the view to be scaled as the window size changes. We don't *have* to take that exact approach though, and I'd be happy to adjust the designs based on what is technically feasible.
Provisionally adding as a 3.16 target, since this would be a big improvement for the initial out of the box experience.
Some of my early work toward a design like this, from back in January: http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2014/01/30/notes-from-the-docs-hackfest/
The original mockup didn't look particularly refined, so some additional design work has been done here: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/tree/master/help This is the current favourite: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/help/help-start-6.png
*** Bug 737609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Has any progress been made here? If not, this is not a 3.16 "GNOME Target" as we are under UI Freeze for 3.16 now.
removing target
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