[kdewebdev-site] FAQ and Kallery

[Andras Mantia]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 02:17, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:51 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   You can see the kallery.kdewebdev.org (which validates), where I
> > put the old content to the new layout and also implemented another
> > XML parsing routine which is useful for inserting new releases. I
> > will put the code to the CVS as well.
>
> So I take it you want Kallery completely under the umbrella? I note
> your masthead image is not quite consistent and without editing your
> section I can't upload so I put a masthead.png for Kallery in the
> kallery directory. 

I will fix it so anybody can upload there. BTW, the logo is old, I 
know. ;-)

> To be consistent it would go in 
> /kallery/public_html/images/page/masthead.png so that the location
> would be the same.

OK.

> > While doing so I found two issues:
> > - if we put the handbook online, now the best is if the
> > documentation is opened in a new window, because it's layout is
> > different and occupies the whole screen. Any idea how to do it in a
> > better way? I think we don't want to use frames...
>
> I'm sure you won't get consensus on this so your idea is fine. ;-)

Similar here is that the KDE documentations have a common directory with 
CSS, HTML and image files. I think this should be shared between the 
projects.

> > - I'd like to put the faq_widget.php to  the include dir (maybe
> > call it faq.inc.php), as it would be useful to use from subdomains
> > as well. Of course, I already fixed locally so it can open the XML
> > file that you submit to a showFAQ(filename) function. Do you agree
> > with me?
>
> Yes and no. Yes, it should be moved to the include directory. As far
> as the rest goes, I'm okay with it being able to load any file, but
> if we show a faq on the main site and one on quanta, kommander or
> kallery then we effectively create a mess in my opinion. There are
> common install issues and items that we will want on the main faq and
> the application faq. The only way I see to keep from being a mess is
> to centralize it. I've posted on this several times and edited the
> faq.xml. Have you read any of this? The "any faq" ability is great,
> but the display should sort by
> <application name="quanta" />

This is a way to go, of course. Still it might be much better to have 
multiple faq XML files instead of one big file. The <application 
name="quanta" /> can remain though.

> I have added "common" so it should be
> if ($application == $_application || $application == "common")
> and of course your faq_widget.php will need to assemble arrays
> instead of directly printing element links. 

Yes, I realized that. ;-) I will do now.

Andras
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Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org
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