How about adding a language switch to redesigned sites?

KDE is isinternational community, so we need add support for other languages.

@KonqiDragon Translations are planed, but it will take time to write an interface between Jekyll or Hugo to the KDE translations workflow. I already wrote a parser which extracts the string from a file and create pot files and now I trying to find a solution to generate the translated files from mo files.

Add a https://www.kdevelop.org to redesign list, it looks like a KDE style but it's have a differents from https://konsole.kde.org and https://choqok.kde.org, it would also be cool to provide in Download snap and flatpak links.

One thing I noticed while browsing the re-design candidates: many websites showcase screenshots with features that don't exist anymore. Case in point: the Konsole website shows the old split-tab feature that doesn't work on current builds.
Then there are some applications like Okular using screenshots from KDE3 which is just confusing to viewers.

Should a major focus of redesign also be to unify screenshots? That is, use the same theme and icons (Breeze obviously) and check even websites that are not up for a redesign if screenshots are obsolete? I'd be more than happy to do that.

@joricke the old screenshot in the Konsole website is here because when I did the website, the new split screen feature didn't exist yet. Without maintenance the page are often getting outdated. So yes this is part of this task ;)

The code for the Konsole website is located at https://cgit.kde.org/websites/konsole-kde-org.git/ and for okular at https://cgit.kde.org/websites/okular-kde-org.git/.

Then you can submit patch with arc: https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator#Using_Arcanist_to_post_patches

Or you can just send the new screenshots here, if it's easier for you.

Got it 👍

Cantor got a beautiful website thanks to @filipesaraiva

https://cantor.kde.org/ 🎉

Looks really nice and in-line with the overall KDE website theme. Good job!

Edit: Small thing I found: there's no active state for the navigation buttons, only the index page will be "active".

This looks like a bug in the theme, a possible hacky workaround in javascript is

let page = new URL(window.location);
document.querySelectorAll('.nav-link').forEach(link => {
    let link_url = new URL(link.href);
    if (page.pathname.startsWith(link_url.pathname) && link_url.pathname !== '/') {
        link.classList.add('active');
    }
});

but I will try to find something that don't use javascript

In T10827#208522, @ognarb wrote:

Cantor got a beautiful website thanks to @filipesaraiva

https://cantor.kde.org/ 🎉

Thanks @ognarb, and thank you for the Jekyll theme!

@ognarb hi, can you send me the link to the jekyll theme kde uses right now?

Hi @iammarco, the theme is located at invent.kde.org/websites/jekyll-kde-theme/

Thanks a lot @ognarb ,I am akshay praveen nair. I hail from India. I am currently an undergrad student at Amritapuri school of engineering, kerala. The Konversation website has not been updated for a while, I would love to take up an initiative to redo the entire website redesign with the current jekyll theme you just shared. The konversation website if redone, I think would be great for the community.

cheers :)

Also ping @hein as maintainer of Konversation about that website

ok got it :)
should I do that in the mailing list or irc?

Hello @iammarco, if you want to help with the conversation website, I already started a fork of it in https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/konversation-kde-org

Here is an example commit of one conversion: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/konversation-kde-org/commit/dd674a5dc7a5a747d3c2f4644fdc39bc75fbe36d

I already contacted Eike ;)

ok, that's great @ognarb so I think I will also start contributing to your fork, maybe that can ease the work ;)

Hey @ognarb , just a doubt, do I need developer access to push to a repo (i forked urs) in invent.kde.org

@ognarb I have sent you a access request on the project https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/konversation-kde-org :)

@ognarb As mentioned in the task, I found the krusader (https://krusader.org/) and the marble (https://marble.kde.org/) sites to be outdated. If possible I would like to redesign any one based on the main KDE -Jekyll theme.Can you give me some pointers to get started with, also should I contact the mentor of the projects?

@adiaux https://invent.kde.org/websites/jekyll-kde-theme/ -> jekyll theme

hello @ognarb I have added some items like get involved, donate to the navigation bar and changed half of the php to markdown :)

@adiaux You should contact the maintainers in the project mailing list. marble-devel@kde.org and for Krusader I already contacted the maintainer: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/krusader-devel/ieAzC_dV1qY but didn't get an answer yet. Maybe @yurchor can help with that ;)

@ognarb Thanks alot :)
@yurchor As mentioned in the task, I am looking forward to be able to work on the Krusader website. Could you give me some pointers on where to start.

Subscribing @abika too :)

@ognarb you haven't pushed a img named konsolefancy.png, but in the code I have seen that the path assets/img/konsolefancy.png being used. If the image is necessary can you push it?

In T10827#213493, @adiaux wrote:

@yurchor As mentioned in the task, I am looking forward to be able to work on the Krusader website. Could you give me some pointers on where to start.

Actually, I do not have access to our site. I'm a documentation maintainer. ;)

I think that we just need a revamp in the common KDE (or authentic Krusader) style without major revision of the content.

@nmel @gengisdave Can you look at this?

@nmel @gengisdave Could you give me some pointers on where to start with the revamp.

In T10827#213556, @adiaux wrote:

@nmel @gengisdave Could you give me some pointers on where to start with the revamp.

Sure. First of all, thanks for your initiative. I think the website needs a design refresh for a long time. From the content perspective, we try to keep it up to date, but we don't mind moving things around if it helps looking better.

This is the repo for the website: https://phabricator.kde.org/source/websites-krusader-org/ . It's all static html. You can start looking into the content and redesign things. Since it's a continuous deployment setup, all changes to master have to be reviewed like this. I suggest you to create a branch and start working there, sharing updates periodically. Once it's ready, we can review it thoroughly and merge to master. Please let me know if you have any questions.

@ognarb I have ported every file in /konversation-kde-org/_posts to markdown. If you have time please take a look at the files and if any error (caused during porting) let me know. :)

@iammarco Great could you also rename the files to comply with the convention 'year-month-day-slug.md'. Otherwise Jekyll can't find the posts.

@adiaux I gave you access to https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/krusader-org/ so that you can convert this website to Jekyll with Simon. :)

In T10827#213623, @ognarb wrote:

@iammarco Great could you also rename the files to comply with the convention 'year-month-day-slug.md'. Otherwise Jekyll can't find the posts.

@ognarb I have renamed and pushed it :) doesn't this website need made with kde badge?

@nmel I have began the redesign for the Krusader website. Is there any way to communicate about it with you ?
@ognarb Is there any way I can contact Simon regarding the same . Thanks :)

@ognarb I have an idea, why don't we make the homepage describing the workflow and features and a separate page containing all the announcements? :) do let me know on what do you think about that?

Hello, I think cutehmi.kde.org needs a redesign. I have helped @ognarb for the konversation website. If anyone is willing to mentor mentor me, I would love to do a redesign for cutehmi.kde.org as a part of SoK.

Added T12423 as a subtask, it serves for organization. If you're interested in a specific project or want to work on a project but still don't have your name assigned there, you may add yourself easily to the table by editing the task.

Can manifesto.kde.org still be updated cause T12357 was about migrating content and not redesigning it?

also can utils.kde.org multimedia.kde.org games.kde.org be shut down since they're so outdated?

btw rkward.kde.org still doesn't use Jekyll theme (no dark mode)

So as I can see, the 3 websites that are equivalent to categories of our apps, edu.k.o, multimedia.k.o, and utils.k.o, are still alive and really outdated, even though we already have some other plans for them. The other category-equivalent one, games.k.o, although has been ported to Jekyll, I think can still be improved.

What I'd like to propose here is to merge these 4 sites into apps.k.o, then they can go away. Steps are:

• Convert their text data to Hugo data in yaml/json/xml format. This has no problem with handling data in other languages (in other words, translations, which seems to be one issue with edu.k.o and utils.k.o);
• Make equivalent category pages on apps.k.o resemble their home pages (e.g. apps.k.o/games would resemble games.k.o/index.html). Currently apps.k.o category pages only list apps in the corresponding categories, so adding some data from those home pages would be better for them;
• Add suitable data from their (i.e. category-equivalent sites') app pages into apps.k.o's corresponding app pages (e.g. games.k.o/games/picmi data would be added to apps.k.o/picmi). I haven't checked with all 4 sites, but at least for games.k.o, the information on an app page, which is some guidance on the target of a game and how to play it, can be added after the download section on the corresponding app page on apps.k.o;
• Possibly make sub-category pages on apps-k-o for sub-categories of apps, such as arcade, board, card, etc. for games, or mathematics, science, etc. for edu apps;
• Make redirections from those sites' pages to apps.k.o pages;
• Archive them.

How do you think?

How do you think?

I haven't done a lot of webpage work but from what I can tell this seems like a solid plan.

In T10827#271310, @felixernst wrote:

I haven't done a lot of webpage work but from what I can tell this seems like a solid plan.

Thank you. I have created an Invent issue for better progress tracking and linked back to this task, now this is to let you know about and also to link this forward to that issue https://invent.kde.org/websites/apps-kde-org/-/issues/24

Update: all, except the archiving step, are done for games.k.o:

• "How to play" sections are shown for games having the data. These sections can also be translated;
• Accessing games.k.o pages will redirect to corresponding parts on apps.k.o, except games.k.o/old and its subpages which are left untouched.