Re: [opensuse-wiki] Improve the application template

Excellent!

New template implemented.

Rolf


On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 16:09 +0200, Rolf Riis Bjørnsen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've written a suggestion[0] for an improvement to the application
> template[0].
>
> I've:
>
> * Added the intro-template to the top
>
> * Removed suggestion for About section.
> It violates the guidelines: "Do not use About or Introduction as name of
> the first section." [2]
>
> * Commented out the TOC
> Most application pages are too small for this to be useful.
>
> * Changed bullet points from requirement to a suggestion.
> When features are forced into bullet points, they sometimes become very
> long, and long bullet points are hard to read.
>
> * Removed horizontal rules.
> They are useful to separate sections on long pages, but they make short
> article look messy.
>
> * Removed the section "See also".
> There's a link to the project site in the right hand Application box,
> and categories are the primary, self updating way of finding related
> software but are shadowed by "see also" and "external links".
>
> (I'm not certain about this last one, but there's just so much stuff
> going on that's not a part of the article that it just drowns out the
> actual content [3]. External links are also hard to understand by
> themselves when not explained properly such as inline links are.)
>
>
> So, what do you think? Would this be a change for the better?
>
>
> [0]: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Retor/Application
> [1]: https://en.opensuse.org/Template:Application
> [2]: https://en.opensuse.org/Help:Style#Section_title
> [3]: http://imgur.com/hXZxcwR
>
>


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