<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/28 Andrew Flegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@bleb.org">andrew@bleb.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Andrew Flegg <<a href="mailto:andrew@bleb.org">andrew@bleb.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Here're my thoughts. No mockup yet; I'm no graphic designer, so it'll<br>
> take me a while.<br>
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</div>I've attempted to do something with Inkscape:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://bleb.org/software/maemo/maemo-org_mockup.png" target="_blank">http://bleb.org/software/maemo/maemo-org_mockup.png</a></blockquote><div> </div><div>I like this design,very simple and clear, but I have a little suggestion, I don't know if whit my suggestion the design will be a little more 'unclear', the changes can be made easily in Inkscape and produce a new mockup :)<br>
My suggestions are:<br><br>1- put the four boxes on the left and put a new box with "the pearl" on the right<br>2- use the blank space on the left of the four boxes to put the maemo logo and a little description, like the in <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">http://www.opensuse.org/en/</a> , but smaller.<br>
<br>Best regards,<br><br>-- <br>Valério Valério<br><br><a href="http://www.valeriovalerio.org">http://www.valeriovalerio.org</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Key features:<br>
<br>
> == Small links ==<br>
> Pervasive across *.<a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a>. [snip]<br>
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And I *mean* pervasive. The overall outline and top-bar should be<br>
present on *.<a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a> sites. I've used the term 'Add-ons' rather than<br>
'Downloads', because things added to the tablet'll be coming through<br>
Application Manager rather than directly downloaded. "Extras" is nice,<br>
but too general at the top-level.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> == Big links ==<br>
> Task oriented boxes; nicely rounded rectangles, with graduated fills,<br>
</div>> white text, a glossy look and lovely icons; [snip]<br>
<br>
These are to guide people who end-up here from Google or<br>
<a href="http://maemo.nokia.com" target="_blank">maemo.nokia.com</a>. High-level, simple English. They'll go to the level 1<br>
pages the same as the pervasive links at the top.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> == Swarming ==<br>
> Below the above, we show the current activity in the community. This<br>
> is NOT just the latest content (seriously, most of the time that's not<br>
> that useful), but instead shows rolling averages of things like the<br>
> wiki, Bugzilla and the mailing lists; and top-rated news items. This<br>
> is to try and capture where the community is currently focused.<br>
<br>
</div>The formatting of the portlets capturing this swarm information is<br>
sub-optimal, but Inkscape ain't the best for doing DTP. Hopefully, you<br>
can get the gist and look past the over-simplified detail.<br>
<br>
The portlets correspond to the easy-to-use buttons above, + an about<br>
box + news & events. Content is syndicated from a VARIETY of sources,<br>
weighted by activity/newness/etc. and sorted into the buckets. For<br>
example, the "latest community activity" is showing threads from<br>
maemo-users, maemo-community and pages which have been recently<br>
changed a few times in Category:Users and Category:Communnity in the<br>
wiki.<br>
<br>
Similarly, latest developer activity aggregates content from<br>
-developers and Category:Development in the wiki.<br>
<br>
These lists should be better styled, possibly including dates - and<br>
maybe even mini-icons as bullet points to represent the source of the<br>
information.<br>
<br>
Anyway, this is close to what's in my head at the moment. If nothing<br>
else, hopefully it'll inspire some discussion.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
Andrew<br>
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