Re: QEMU wiki theme table of contents changes

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 02:04:35PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 05:51, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looking at
> >
> >   https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.2
> >
> > I'm thinking that I'm sure there used to be a table of contents present
> > at the top of pages, but none is to be seen..... until I eventually
> > discover that there's a bare noticable, fully collapsed ToC in the left
> > hand nav panel below all the general wiki nav links, partially off the
> > bottom of the page :-(
> >
> > If going to https://wiki.qemu.org/Special:Preferences, "Appearance" and
> > selecting "Vector legacy (2010)" as the "Skin" instad of "Vector (2022)"
> > then the full ToC re-appears at the top of page in the main body content.
> >
> > I'm presuming this style change was triggered by a software upgrade that
> > was done on the wiki at some point.
> >
> > IMHO this is quite a significant visual/usability regression.
> >
> > On wikipedia, they do have the same theme, with ToC in the left hand
> > panel, but their ToC is expanded by default, and there's no other general
> > navigation in the left hand panel that's displacing the ToC off the bottom
> > of the page. That is fairly effective as a layout.
> >
> > We can do something to the QEMU skin to improve this ? Swapping order
> > of the ToC & general nav blocks in the left hand panel would be a
> > improvement, as well making it expand at least 1 further level by
> > default.
> >
> > If we're going to have background colour set for the general nav block,
> > we should also probably do similar for the ToC nav block to make it
> > visually stand out to the same degree.
> 
> Yes, that sounds good. The quickest would be for you to:
> 1. Run https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki/ in a container on your machine.
> 2. Adjust the theme CSS until you are happy.
> 3. Send me the tweaks and I will apply them to wiki.qemu.org.

Is the current QEMU mediawiki code (or just theme) published anywhere
that I can base work off ?


With regards,
Daniel
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