[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/16] Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx

[Jordan Justen]

On 2018-05-31 16:06:13, Laura Ekstrand wrote:
> A little bit of messing around this afternoon, led to this:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rteTv9415XEMN1E11fyN0l3hTUCCbgwz/view?usp=sharing

Nice. That confirms we can easily get back to a something closer to
the older look in short order. (Unless the consensus is to actually
stay with the generic look.)

> The gears are from Font Awesome, which comes with the RTD format.

It'd be nice to get the icon back, but the gear glyph is an
improvement compared to the house glyph.

Anyway, I stick by what I said below too in reply to Eric about
withdrawing my feedback.

Thanks,

-Jordan

> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-05-31 12:27:04, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > > Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On 2018-05-24 17:37:09, Laura Ekstrand wrote:
> > > >> A few of the commits are quite large and awaiting list approval.  I
> > suggest
> > > >> that you take a look at the code here:
> > > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ldeks/mesa/tree/website1_75,
> > > >> and the new website here: https://mesa-test.freedesktop.
> > org/index.html
> > > >
> > > > I think the theme should be changed to look somewhat close to the
> > > > current mesa3d.org website before changing the main site. (Color
> > > > scheme and missing icons.)
> > > >
> > > > Right now the test website looks like a million other sphinx websites,
> > > > including every readthedocs book.
> > > >
> > > > Based on http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ and
> > > > https://www.python.org/, I would say sphinx gives a lot of
> > > > opportunities for a custom look.
> > >
> > > I think looking like a generic other sphinx website is a step forward,
> > > and I look forward to this series landing.  No need for continuity with
> > > the old theme.
> >
> > I think it is 1 step forward, 1 step back. As no else appears to
> > agree, I'll withdraw my feedback.
> >
> > -Jordan
> >