On 11/24/2010 10:02 PM, Jef van Schendel wrote: > I made a mockup [1] which has the same content as the current Start > page, but with the redesigned header and footer. Together with Sijis I > put together a working prototype [2]. As you can see we added two RSS > feeds to the page with announcements and Fedora Planet posts. > > Looking back I don't think I announced any of this on the Websites or > Design Team mailing lists, which wasn't smart. After all, if it's not on > the list, it didn't happen. ;) That's so true... :) > - I think the Board has talked before about changing the content and > function of start.fpo, but I can't remember what the consensus was. This > is why I kept the current content and only worked on the appearance > (just like you did). I think that's the best way to go for now. We can > always change it in the future. IIRC, there was no consensus reached. An important amount of people have concerns about us relying on/promoting a proprietary service. There are also voices saying some other projects receive money from Google for something like this. And other voices pointing to the little value of having a Google search when the default browser (Firefox) has the search box inside its UI. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
