Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Stellarium download links

[Matthew G. <mat...@gm...>]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Lone Hiker wrote:
> Hi Matthew and Rob,
>
> Perhaps this isn't the ideal solution, but might I suggest adding an
> additional link category to the Sourceforge section? Here's the idea:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~lonesky/Stellarium/Stellarium.html
>
> The main link ("older releases") goes to the "Browse All Packages" page
> while the sub-links go to the specific OS pages.

I like the idea of having platform specific links for older release.  I've 
had several emails and found a few forum posts about getting hold of older 
releases - it seems people have quite a hard time navigating the 
sourceforge download pages.  

I thikn the look of the bullet points could do with tweaking.  For me they 
appear too far to the right (the bullet graphic is below the "r" 
of "older", - I think it should be more to the left).  Here's what I see 
with Firefox on Linux:

http://porpoisehead.net/misc/older_release_links.png

> I edited the Linux download graphic to replace the sub-links list bullet
> with an arrow (named 'download.png'). The 'largelist-bullet.gif' graphic
> didn't look right in a nested list.
>
> I also added a new class to the CSS called 'sublist' and changed all
> bullet image properties from 'background-image' to 'list-style-image'
> because the former was causing problems in IE (surprise) with nested
> lists. I had to add a 'margin-left' property and tweak the 'padding-left'
> property to get the spacing the same (at least as it appeared in
> Firefox).
>
> I tested the layout in Firefox 3 and IE7. Please review the markup and
> CSS to make sure there are no known mistakes. Test in other browsers if
> possible.
>
> Here is the ZIP containing the markup, CSS and 'download.png' graphic:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~lonesky/Stellarium/Stellarium_files.zip
>
> Also, I think it would be nice if the news section contained more
> entries, or perhaps an "older news" section (see layout link above).
> Right now there's a huge empty space in the middle column below the news
> section that could be put to better use it seems. Of course it doesn't
> have to be older news. :)

Yeah, I had also thought we should keep more news items.  It's been nagging 
at me.  I'll check the rss processing script and see if I can make a change 
there.  Not sure about splitting it into old and new sections, just because 
that seems like more work.  :-)

>
> Finally, in IE7 the links in the news section don't wrap and extend into
> the Sourceforge section. Looks pretty bad.

In konqueror the links in the news feed extend into the next column.  Also 
looks bad.  I'd be interested to know if the same thing happens with 
webkit/safari (whose HTML rendering engine come from the same code base as 
konqueror).

>
> Mike
>
> P.S. Please feel free to say "no thanks" to these suggestions or change
> things around. I have no strong position on this matter. ;)