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

[Rob Clark]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> With all this talk of fancy looking new websites, I decided to take a crack
> at being artsy and coming up with a fancy-looking logo to put on it.  Here's
> a first rough draft:
>
> https://people.freedesktop.org/~jekstrand/gears-logo-bold.png
>
> It's not great but it turned out better than I expected.  That version looks
> good on a light background but it could probably be tweaked to look good on
> dark/black if we want.

it almost looks like the three corners of the "M" could fit in the
holes in the gears.. not sure if that could be made to work by
tweaking the width of the "M" or size of the gears, or if that just
ends up worse..

(then someone just needs to make a 3d rotating model of mesa-gears
with the gears running on axles extending from the M .. :-P)

BR,
-R

>
> --Jason
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, 2018-05-31 21:33:16 -0400,
>> mesa-dev-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Jordan Justen
>> > <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > my $0.02 (which is probably worth even less when it comes to the topic
>> > of aesthetics), Laura's new proposal looks much nicer than generic rtd
>> > which looks better than current site..
>> >
>> > I mostly don't want to get a much needed infrastructure/process
>> > improvement derailed with a bikeshed discussion about themes.  Nothing
>> > against playing with theme options and seeing what people (with better
>> > taste than me) like, just don't want that to be something that derails
>> > the bigger picture ;-)
>>
>> Entirely agreed. I also think the old style was distinctive and had
>> become part of the "personality" of our website, and I would like the
>> new website to look similar, but this is a minor detail that we can
>> trivially alter later.
>>
>> For now let's focus on the infrastructure changes, discussing the style
>> can be done in parallel or later, but shouldn't block this.
>>
>> >
>> > BR,
>> > -R
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > 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
>> > >> >
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