Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Yup, nice catch, Quim. I hadn't realized at first, but now you've mentioned it, what gives me the "orange visual overdose" impression is the links - specifically, the "plain-text" links inside the posts on the Planet maemo page for example.

As you said, the orange "decorations" are well done, even the news titles would be OK : it's the links that appear a lighter shade of orange (because the font is non-bold) that should be turned a lighter or darker shade of something else... I'm sure the pages would be a lot easier on the eyes.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

There is no problem saying that it's beta, but why it has to in be logo? It's ugly.
Small notice in footer would suffice

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

i like it. thanks to all who worked on it.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Should bugs in the new design still be submitted against the "Newstyle" component, or is that component being vacated now that the new theme is live?

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Few things I've noticed, 'scuse me if already discussed:

• announcements on the front page - dead spot. Nothing draws the user attention on a quick glance. It should be more visible IMHO.
• Username and Serch fields - text should be auto selected or disappear on focus like the password field.
• The new style wiki main menu is broken, looks like a missing image/sprite (FF35b).
• The gray elipsoid in the right menu can be divided to two elements to support the vertical resizing of the items (like when on two rows).

Keep up the good work.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

I'm sticking to Newstyle for the time being. I'll ask X-Fade, once his two hours of sleep time are up, where he wants them, though. ;)

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Wow very nice. Fast, I like the overall visibility and the graphic choices.
A few clicks brought me to some usefull info.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

hehe. My site is newly launched and still technically in beta until the end of the month. But the only notice of it's beta state I made was in a little sidebar announcement. ;)

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

tell that one to google ;-)

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Actually, all of the comments I make in this forum (or anywhere online for that matter) are pretty much Beta status.

Tim

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Hopefully we can do something with the page "Community Council" as I am not sure what I am supposed to take from it. Where is the Wiki page info? It seems like this should be the front end to the Council, stick the blogging off to the side. Who is the council? what is the council?, this is your first chance to introduce yourselves and there is nothing there.

I just think NEW or OLD people coming to maemO.org will not take much from the current page. Which is the first place to find out about the community council. You end up with a bunch of blog posts. I think it chould be setup more like the IRC page with some real info about the council


When I click "Bugs and Features" Its just a blank page
http://maemo.org/community/bugs_and_features/

I can't really file a bug telling you "I dont know what maemo communtiy council is" and if should be clear as the first introduction to "Community Council" on MaEmo.oRg.

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Seriously though, I love the new site's look. Now lets just work on the some of the usability issues.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Yes, addressing content is the plan. :)

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Loads just fine here.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

I am running firefox 3.0.7 on centos 5.2

You right it works fine on my tablet and on IE7 and in konqueror


Any other firefox users having a problem? Mine is just a blank page

http://maemo.org/community/bugs_and_features/

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Try forcing it to re-fetch? May be bad cache.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

That did it. <shift> refresh

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

I'm not expert but I think this means a proxy in between is sending wrong headers (or the webserver itself?) Probably your ISP or local proxy? I remember some problems with proxy or reverse proxy at maemo, at the time.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

'"maemo.org", though a proper noun, should be all lowercase.'

ManY newspaperS won'T leT yoU overthroW thE ruleS oF spellinG foR nO gooD reasoN.

Their style guides say to ignore attempts to grab attention by using freaky capitalization.

Proper nouns, after all, are capitalized for a reason, not because of the whim of some entity.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

The point is to further differentiate it from the Maemo trademark.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Indeed, but then I wasn't writing advice to a New York Times columnist, I was offering a few points for consideration to a blogger. If Lord Raiden has a style guide for his site that directs him to write "maemo.org" as "Maemo.org", even just at the start of sentences, then bully for him. I have no problem with that. I was offering information, not looking for a fight.

At the same time, even the New York Times appears to have no problem disregarding proper capitalization of titles and body text when it comes to certain other trademarks. I blame e.e. cummings and bell hooks.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Not sure if this was discussed already but when I tried to click on a "thumbs up" for an announcement without being logged, I am redirected to this:

https://maemo.org/?net_nemein_favour...977fc1f131f13/

And it's an empty page.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

It's a known bug. Thanks! :)

Tim

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Where's the "first unread" link?

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

I can't find the "my memory is running low, I have forgotten my password, please send it back to the email".
At least I remember my email..

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

Will all the various components of maemo.org eventually allow for a one size fits all registration and then maybe allow existing users to merge registrations?

Back in the day, the most frustrating thing I encountered after finding out that a bug would not allow my new $400 N800 to tether to my cell phone carrier was the simple act of reporting that bug and following through.

After registering with ITT and first learning of this thing called "Bugzilla" that could be found at Maemo.org, then registering there and learning that more info was available @ Maemo Garage, then registering there and being directed to "Bugzilla" where I was prompted for yet another registration... I almost "fixed" all my issues by tossing the tablet against the dang wall and walking away. :)

Between all the registration prompts and the "Invalid Security Certificate" pop ups from some of those sites it was a good 6 months before I finally got to report the bug and another 6 months before it was addressed.

Can new user interaction be tested with dummy "new user" accounts to see if those idiosyncrasies still exist?

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

SSO is planned, merging registrations is more complicated. As simple as it sounds, it is in fact an incredibly complicated thing to implement. You're more than welcome to help out, though.

Re: New Maemo.org coming Wednesday 22 April
 

No kidding.

Perhaps the first thing might be to allow the same credentials to be used by new registrants. As I recall during my experience I could not register with the same name at one of the component sites because there was already a user by that name listed.

I don't know for certain but I believe that the other user was actually me from my previous registration at another component site. Both sites may have referenced the same DB and yet that other sites credentials could not be used at the new site because I was not in the new sites users file...:confused:

(I hope that makes sense.)


In any event sometimes these "Catch 22" scenarios can not be realized until the processes are "wet run" with dummy credentials.