[PyKDE] Screenshots: PyQt/KDE Development-Portal

[Marc Schmitt]

On Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 13:13, Marc Schmitt wrote:
> Can be found here :
>
> http://members.fortunecity.de/dwisp/

v5 :

o changed name to Qt.Py
o changed left menu, according to some of Jonathans suggestions
o this release featuring sweet katie 
o replaced logo with new beta-logo of portal 

for more details, see text below.


On Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 18:54, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> Overall, it is really really nice. When I look at that page, I feel relaxed
> and happy. Also, I really got interested in learning more.

 Ahhhhhhh. Thanks, that feels good :)


> The birds are a very nice touch. I also like the subtle gear in the upper
> left corner. Would it be possible to add Trolltech, Python, and/or
> Riverbank's logo as well? I don't think KDE should take center stage, even
> though they do have the best logo.

Yes, making the page look like kde wasn't my intention (althogh all icons you 
can see are were stolen from several  kde-iconsets - i hope i can use them).
I replaced the logo in the upper left with a quick-and-dirty replacement, 
until I get something better. 
Placing all logos on the page is impossible. I tried it. I downloaded all 
logos, but even with two it looks terrible. Adding more than one logo to the 
top-bar would only be possible with a complete redesign. The only place which 
has some additional room is the top right, but this place is reserverd for a 
very small graphic to loosen things up a bit.
All those logos certainly will appear (at least if I get permission from the 
copyrightholders) somewhere, e.g. under "Background".

> The splash/home page is really nice. The wording and the style is
> comfortable and inviting.

It is my intention to reserve the main-eyecatching field within the middle of 
the screen for pictured advertisements. I'd like to keep this one for a 
couple of week and replace it when major changes appear. 
The logo top-right is meant for this purpose too, to get changed from time to 
time. This should make the page a bit more living (and makes you hopefully 
come back to see what "they" invented this time).

> The sidebars, which tell me about the site layout, is comfortably laid out.
> The sections are perfect. It is missing a few things:
>
> - Links to Riverbank Computing, Trolltech, KDE, and python. It is best if
> these were on the home page, in text or image links.

Links to them will be placed, but imho they should be placed one level below. 
They are not that important and the space on the left is very valuable. Also, 
I'd like to keep the information on each level (especiall the top) easy, to 
allow users to "pull" what they need.

> - Link to SourceForge with the SourceForge logo. If we were not hosting on
> SF, this is not an issue, but if this page is hosted on SF, it needs to be
> there on the home page and every page, I think. Here's the code for that.
>
> <A href="http://sourceforge.net"> <IMG
> src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=61057&amp;type=5"
> width="210" height="62" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"></A>

Thanks. I added it to the down-left. It fits pretty nice there and is (in a 
positive sense) a bit complimentary to the green bar.

> - Your name at the bottom should link to your home page or email as well.
> You have to take credit for your work. ;-)

:) But I'm not that important, too. So, in order to find the appropriate place 
for the sf-logo, I removed the (c) link. It will appear either within the 
document-source, on the end of the page or on "authors"

> - Download Now link can be a single link that leads to a page with
> instructions on what to download from where. Separating it out into source
> and binaries without instructions is confusing for new people unfamiliar
> with free software development. That should happen on the page with
> instructions for downloading and installing.

ack. fixed.

> This was just a couple of ideas, and you can use it or not, I won't care
> either way. Again, I really, really like it! When you want it put up, send
> me a tarball of the pages and images, and I'll post it at SF. You don't
> have to have it 100% perfect before you post it. You can rework the design
> as much as you like, and I'll even get you set up with shell access on SF.

Again, thanks a lot for the feedback. Thats helps me to go an, and shows me 
I'm not producing too much garbage.


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On Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 18:54, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> My German is virtually non-existent any more, but it would be
> somewhat of a cross between "liebchen" and "scho/"ne Ma/"dchen".
> Scho/"n ~= cute -> cutie (sounds like 'Q t'), which is sort of a
> "diminutive", like adding "-chen" on the end of word auf Deutsch
> (??) It's more like baby talk. Sorry, I can't do umlauts, and my
> spelling is probably off too.  (Babelfish was no help either)

Wow. Very good. :) Except "liebchen" is no german word I know, I'd rather use 
"Schatz" (which you call your loved one) or "Scha/"tzchen" (which you *should 
not* call a (sexual attractive) woman) - I guess there's no direct 
translation.

In order to see how the name fits to the page, I changed the title and the 
text to Qt.Py. But Qt.Py is to short to (graphically) connect the left side 
of the page to the right one, so I added the pronounciation too. (At least I 
hope I did)

> It's kind of like trying to translate one of my mother's favorite
> jokes (she was born in the US but grew up in a German speaking
> household): if you asked her "Was ist los?", her reply was always
> "Alles was nicht angebundant ist". In English that becomes "What's
> wrong?" - "Everything that isn't tied down". It loses something in
> the translation.

:) 

There's a modern form of is (a friend of mine uses it pretty often)  : "Was 
geht ?" "Alles was Füß' hat.". - "What's up ?" "Everything with foots" (As 
"geht" originally means "walks", but it's used as slang here)

-Marc