[Design-team] Seeking feedback on a prototype

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Ralph Bean <rbean at redhat.com> wrote:
> The demo is up on my website[1].
>
> We have tons of apps run by Fedora Infrastructure and a long-time
> complaint is that they have inconsistent theming, and no chrome that
> ties them together -- that makes them look like they're all part of
> the same thing.  Theming them consistently or adding a unifying chrome
> would be awesome, but a very challenging and time-consuming task.
The way to go about will be to have base templates and static files as
a separate repository, where all the consistent look and feel related
work (navbar, forms, footer, etc.) goes.
Other projects can add this repo as a submodule and extend and
customize it as needed.

> This little prototype is an attempt at making a single line of
> javascript that we could include in each app to add a floating button
> that pulls up a menu taking you to other Fedora apps.  It could
> potentially display other information like "how to join!" and "don't
> forget to book your tickets for Flock!" and.. etc.  It falls short of
> a unifying chrome, but I tried to make it simple enough that it won't
> collide with the layouts and style of other pages.. something we could
> actually deploy without exhausting ourselves.

The menu indeed looks nice. However, I have some concerns regarding
how new users will perceive it. Usually people are used to navbars and
sidebars in most websites. I think our menu content is much similar to
the navbar content at http://www.myntra.com/, top level menu items and
sub items for each top level item. http://www.myntra.com/ has
implemented the navbar with a lot of data in a very elegant way. We
can load the navbar as a separate snippet from our CDN. The cache in
the CDN gets invalidated and updated with changes happening for
apps.fp.o.

Regards,
rtnpro
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