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

Thu Jun 7 10:06:29 UTC 2018

Hi,

On 07.06.2018 12:01, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> Just as a fun toy, I decided to give an animated SVG "variation" of
> this a go myself:
> 
> https://codepen.io/kusma/pen/vrXppL
> 
> The actual SVG can be found here:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/snippets/492
> 
> The gears were generated by this python script, based on the glxgears
> source code:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/snippets/491
> 
> Now, dropping this onto the black background doesn't work that well,
> as it gets a bit bland, so it's probably better to add back the colors
> then.
> 
> Also, I'm not really sure if animation is a good idea or not.

Maybe it could be a link target for the static logo?

(Kind of website "easter egg").

> But I definitely think logos should be vector rather than raster ;)

For Mesa, WebGL would be more fitting implementation than SVG though...

	- Eero

> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 1:49 AM, 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.
>>
>> --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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