Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "about.html" is available only for the alabaster theme [1]. > Unconditionally putting it to html_sidebars prevents us from > using other themes which respect html_sidebars. > > Remove about.html from the initialization and insert it at the > front for the alabaster theme. > > Link: [1] https://alabaster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#sidebars > Fixes: d5389d3145ef ("docs: Switch the default HTML theme to alabaster") > Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> This seems like a good fix, applied, thanks. > I noticed this (kind of) build regression while trying to compare > the alabaster theme with the other themes. > > I must say that the current html documentation at > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ > > is almost unusable in site navigation. Once I jump from the top page > to somewhere, I'm at a loss. I can only go back to the top page, > or go back to the previous page with the help of the browser. > (Of course, as I know the directory structure under Documentation/, > I can navigate manually, but that's not nice!) > I think it should at least have the same set of links as those > the classic theme provides. > > Having read [1] and its surrounding documentation (for the first time, > I must confess), the alabaster theme sounds (somewhat) unique in > customizing sidebar and related links. > > But before looking further into alabaster, I'd like to know why > you picked alabaster among those themes which come with Sphinx. > Could you elaborate? I picked it because it looked a lot cleaner than RTD, better supported small-screen devices, and was the Sphinx default. Like so many things, it was done in a bit of a hurry and I cannot claim to have thoroughly considered all of the alternatives. I was hoping that people would respond to the RFC if they had a better idea :) If there is a better theme to use as the default, we can consider changing it again; I don't think there is much cost or inconvenience involved. I do want the default theme to be one of those bundled with Sphinx, though, rather than requiring it to be installed separately. That said, I have no objection to adding configuration support for other themes as well, should people want to use them. Thanks, jon
