Community tab on home page

[Daniel John Debrunner <dj...@debrunners.com>]

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Is it possible to get the > Community tab to be expanded on the home
page as well as the > Derby tab? I think that would be more obvious for
people  on how to get involved, enter bugs and find the mailing lists,
etc. The old site had both expanded, I think. The 'built by forrest'
image being so close to the > Community doesn't help either.

And for me it's one less click to get to the mailing list archives or
the bugs page. :-)

Dan.
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Re: Community tab on home page

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

Jean T. Anderson wrote:

> Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get the > Community tab to be expanded on the home
>> page as well as the > Derby tab? ...  
>
> ...
> Does anyone know how to do this with forrest 0.6? I'm not readily 
> spotting how in the forrest docs, but I'll look more closely and also 
> check the forrest user mail list.
> ...

Forrest 0.6 does not support turning off collapsible menus -- I included 
the post to the forrest user list at the end of this post that verified 
it isn't supported (and that mentioned we can patch the skin to do what 
we want).

So one option would be for somebody patch the forrest skin to what we 
want. I don't have time/skills to do this. If anyone out there is 
interested in doing this, please post! :-)

Another option would be to move the categories we want to always be 
expanded out into separate tabs. Kevin Foster posted this suggestion to 
derby-user@db.apache.org yesterday:

> ... what do people think of the idea of changing the set of tabs to 
> the following:
>
>     Home    Community   Manuals   Papers   Integration
>
> I think that's there enough content and usefulness on Community and 
> Integration to make them tabs in their own right. 

This second option is within my skills and I'll do up a test that shows 
what this would look like for review (i.e., without changing the Derby 
site itself).

Any other options/suggestions/opinions?

 -jean


Reference post to user@forrest.apache.org:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Is there a way to turn off collapsible menus with 
> default 0.6 skin?
> Date: 	Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:04:26 +0100
> From: 	Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>
> Reply-To: 	user@forrest.apache.org
> To: 	user@forrest.apache.org
>
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>
>
>
>Jean T. Anderson wrote:
>...
>> If there a way to turn off the collapsible menu in 0.6?
>
>No, but it should be possible in the future. IIRC there is already a RFE 
>in JIRA issue-tracking.
>
>For now, you can patch the skin to do what you need... and maybe send it 
>to us so we can add it to the trunk :-)
>
>-- 
>Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>            - verba volant, scripta manent -
>   (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: Community tab on home page

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

Daniel John Debrunner wrote:

> Is it possible to get the > Community tab to be expanded on the home
> page as well as the > Derby tab? I think that would be more obvious for
> people  on how to get involved, enter bugs and find the mailing lists,
> etc. The old site had both expanded, I think. The 'built by forrest'
> image being so close to the > Community doesn't help either.

Hmmmmm ... good suggestion. And, yes, the default skin in forrest 0.5.1 
expanded all sections on the menu.

Does anyone know how to do this with forrest 0.6? I'm not readily 
spotting how in the forrest docs, but I'll look more closely and also 
check the forrest user mail list.

By the way, the Derby site is just using the default skin with default 
settings, and my guess is much could be improved. Anyone should feel 
free to advise.

 -jean