I like it!

The Kile Icon at the top left is messed up though due to using a font in the design. The latest version, available in the breeze-icons repo, has the "Kile" text as a path, which ensures it will always look correct.
This is kind of my mistake for committing a svg with a text in it, you just need to use the latest version.

How it looks with the latest version:

Thanks @trickyricky26, I would never have noticed that. Fixed.

Friendly ping to @mludwig, do you have any objections?

Look like there is still a small bug with the social buttons:

Ant while you are at it, could you add a link to the kde mastodon account: https://mastodon.technology/@kde

EDIT: look like I add the javascript disabled, the social buttons are working fine. Sorry for the trouble...

Thanks for your efforts - I like the idea of refreshing the website!

However, I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to use the KDE theme on a website that's not hosted under kde.org.

Could you maybe modify the design a bit?

But then the question is: why is the website not hosted under kde.org?
According the manifesto (https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html), it should be - unless there is an "continuity action plan" approved by the KDE sysadmins.

My idea is to host it under kile.kde.org eventually, but for that I'll need to talk with Sysadmin and set everything up. Right now I simply created a demo hosted on my own server because that was easier and I would not have wasted the precious resources of our sysadmins if in the end the site is not wanted.

In T10318#175542, @xyquadrat wrote:

My idea is to host it under kile.kde.org eventually, but for that I'll need to talk with Sysadmin and set everything up. Right now I simply created a demo hosted on my own server because that was easier and I would not have wasted the precious resources of our sysadmins if in the end the site is not wanted.

Thanks, but Kile's website is just fine under https://kile.sourceforge.io/. You are welcome to propose a new style but it shouldn't be the same as for *.kde.org.

In T10318#175534, @ltoscano wrote:

But then the question is: why is the website not hosted under kde.org?
According the manifesto (https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html), it should be - unless there is an "continuity action plan" approved by the KDE sysadmins.

Well, there are many reasons: for example, it allows for raising donations directly for the development of Kile. Supporting different operating systems or making AppImages requires additional hardware and the few euros that are raised through this donation program are more than welcome.

(I don't know if you have realised this, but many top tier projects are not hosted under kde.org: kate-editor.org, skrooge.org, krita.org, ...)

In T10318#182551, @mludwig wrote:

In T10318#175542, @xyquadrat wrote:

My idea is to host it under kile.kde.org eventually, but for that I'll need to talk with Sysadmin and set everything up. Right now I simply created a demo hosted on my own server because that was easier and I would not have wasted the precious resources of our sysadmins if in the end the site is not wanted.

Thanks, but Kile's website is just fine under https://kile.sourceforge.io/. You are welcome to propose a new style but it shouldn't be the same as for *.kde.org.

I'm fine with that - but I don't think I'll create a new style just for Kile. The intention behind this redesign (and others, such as planned in T10827) was to unify the style of various smaller KDE websites which reinforces the KDE branding (see T9122). If this isn't wanted for Kile, I'll move on to other sites.

(I don't know if you have realised this, but many top tier projects are not hosted under kde.org: kate-editor.org, skrooge.org, krita.org, ...)

That isn't exactly true: the manifesto says "hosted on KDE infrastructure". E.g. krita.org and skrooge.org are both registered and as far as I am aware hosted by KDE, whereas kile.sourceforge.io isn't.

Unless there are any more discussion points coming up soon, I'll close & abandon this task because there is no point in forcing a redesign which isn't approved by the developers of Kile.

In T10318#182553, @xyquadrat wrote:

I'm fine with that - but I don't think I'll create a new style just for Kile. The intention behind this redesign (and others, such as planned in T10827) was to unify the style of various smaller KDE websites which reinforces the KDE branding (see T9122). If this isn't wanted for Kile, I'll move on to other sites.

Ok, no problem.

(I don't know if you have realised this, but many top tier projects are not hosted under kde.org: kate-editor.org, skrooge.org, krita.org, ...)

That isn't exactly true: the manifesto says "hosted on KDE infrastructure". E.g. krita.org and skrooge.org are both registered and as far as I am aware hosted by KDE, whereas kile.sourceforge.io isn't.

To express myself more clearly: they don't use a kde.org subdomain and they don't use the kde.org design.

In T10318#182551, @mludwig wrote:

In T10318#175534, @ltoscano wrote:

But then the question is: why is the website not hosted under kde.org?
According the manifesto (https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html), it should be - unless there is an "continuity action plan" approved by the KDE sysadmins.

Well, there are many reasons: for example, it allows for raising donations directly for the development of Kile. Supporting different operating systems or making AppImages requires additional hardware and the few euros that are raised through this donation program are more than welcome.

(I don't know if you have realised this, but many top tier projects are not hosted under kde.org: kate-editor.org, skrooge.org, krita.org, ...)

They are all hosted by the KDE infrastructure, just not under the kde.org domain. Kile should do the same, according the manifesto. This is a different discussion than the appearance of the website - which you can decide on your own, even though you should reference the KDE community.
In other words, you can be half-in and half-out: it's all-in or all-out. Please contact the KDE sysadmins.

If you need to collect donations, you can discuss to the KDE e.V., and also see how Krita did it in collaboration with the e.V.. You would get the help of the promo team.
Do you know for example that there is a work in progress to produce appstream images? Moreover, using craft, binary-factory.kde.org produces binary packages for Windows. You probably want to join those projects and share the resources anyway.
That also means announcing the release on kde-announce-apps@ (the beta of kile/kf5 was not even noticed by many distributions).

Ping @mludwig can you clarify? Do you want a website with an updated design or not? Because if you do, we can surely find some way to accommodate you. :) FWIW on the subject of donations and payments, I gave a talk about this at Akademy this year and generally pepole were quite supportive of the idea of the KDE e.V. paying for development activities.

It would also be nice to get Kile on the Release Service so that it can get regular releases. The latest release appears to be over 4 years old!

Another belated ping. I've just mentioned Kile to friends and whilst they downloaded it because of my recommedation, multiple people mentioned they disliked the design of the website.

@xyquadrat do you still have your website on a git repo somewhere?

In T10318#285926, @ognarb wrote:

@xyquadrat do you still have your website on a git repo somewhere?

I believe I deleted the repo I had about a year ago because I assumed it was unlikely that we'd make progress on this issue.
Sorry about that. However, the original website demo I created wasn't based on Hugo anyways, which, unless I'm no longer up-to-date with kde-www, would be the way to go today if we were to launch an effort again.