[desktop-discuss] Re: [desktop] Desktop Community pages :: DONE!

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Mike Kiedrowski wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Glynn Foster wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> The revamp of the desktop community pages is now done!
>>>
>>>     http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/
>>> 
>>> Many thanks to Mike, Doug, Erwann and Alfred for helping to put together 
>>> the
>>> upstream desktop community pages - their help has been invaluable to 
>>> having some
>>> really great looking, relevant pages.
>> 
>> Nice work!
>> 
>>> If you'd like to suggest changes, please let me know!
>> 
>> I'm not sure where these might fit into the page layouts for Windowmaker
>> and Enlightenment, but the pmpkg project supports those two apps.
>
> Since the primary goal of the pages is to "advertise" the work that the 
> upstream communities are doing,  and hopfully, foster interest in there work, 
> I'm not sure how we could do it. Their are links to Erwann's blog on the 
> Compiz page, but that's specific to Compiz packages. pmpkg includes 
> Enlightenment and WindowMaker along with a bunch of other cool stuff in one 
> tarball , AFAIK there's no way to link to them specifically. I agree, whole 
> heartedly,  that giving Pat's pmpkg a nod would be a great idea, not to 
> mention making it easier for people to give E and WMaker a try. I suppose a 
> blurb about them being included in pmpkg and a link to the tarball is an 
> option. I'm certainly open to suggestions and would be happy to do the work 
> making any changes to the Enlightenment and WMaker pages.
>
> ~Mike

I'm fine with whatever. Personally speaking, when I looked
over the new layout, I really liked the one (ones?) where the
"Key Links" sidebar included "Packages for Solaris" links.

Eric