Re: Octave-Forge: Proposal to improve package overview page

[Carlo De Falco]

On 14 Oct 2015, at 08:01, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le 13/10/2015 22:17, Oliver Heimlich a écrit :
>> If you are interested, I can present more details. But first I want to know 
>> your opinion on this proposal.
> 
> Oliver,
> 
> This is a great idea.
> 
> Here are a few suggestions :
> 
> a) Move "Renamed or moved packages" and "Unmaintained packages" to separate 
> pages ?
> 
> b) Improve the layout on wide screen by using two or three columns 
> (responsive column design) ?
> 
> c) Perhaps include the description text in the mouseover popup of the package 
> name ?
> 
> c) For the "details" pages, what do you think of this alternate design design 
> :http://kriging.sourceforge.net/htmldoc ?
> 
> @++
> Julien

I pretty much agree with all of Julien's suggestions.

In addition, what about also adding a link to a wiki page either besides the 
"download" and "details" links or in the "details" page?

Many packages already have their own wiki page, the list is on the main page or 
can be accessed from here:
http://wiki.octave.org/Category:Octave-Forge

c,