layout change for help center

[hv1989]

Hi everybody

I've started to change the layout of the help center. You can see what I
want to create on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2195688 . So I
want it to be more attractive and more usable. Also I want to try to bring
the layout of the different manuals (toc/search/man/info/...) to a standard
layout. So it doesn't jump the whole time around.

Now I have already changed TOC. There could be minor tweaks I add on it in
the future, but the basic idee is there (1). Now I want to start with
SEARCH. It will have the same layout as TOC, so if you start searching you
don't come on a totally other page (2). If that's okey, I will start to
implent the orange location bar. So the spacious location bar could be
thrown away (3). Afterwards I would like to implent something totally
different and it's more a nice to have. It would be very good the bookmarks
come under the contents. So you can go to your bookmarks without opening the
menu (4). Now TOC and SEARCH have the same layout. Then I can begin to apply
the layout to MAN/INFO/... So you get an consistent application (5).

Nexto the different steps I want to do, I got some questions. That are the
numbers. I hope you can answer or solve them.

(1) First a question about the colors. I see there are some links to some
colors and icons like: <xsl:value-of select="$yelp.color.bg"/>. Now some of
the colors I overwrite with new one, because I don't know how I can edit it
else? Also I introduce new colors. Do they need to be specified like the
<xsl:value-of select="$yelp.color.bg"/>, because now I'm just inserting the
hexadecimal value. Can you explain how I need to do it properly?
Also I want to use an image in the search entry. Now I don't know how I can
add a new image, so it gets on the right place and I don't know how I can
link to it through CSS. (I know how to do it in CSS, but I don't know the
location of the image...)

(2) For step 2 yelp-search-page.h and yelp-search-page.c need to be updated.
But I'm more into CSS/HTML then I am into cpp or c. I mean I got no
experience with it and I'm not able to write it.
So could anyone look to it and change
So my idea for yelp is that toc2html and search2html get the same layout. So
the yelp-search-page.h and yelp-search-page.c need to be updated, so I can
change the layout of search, so it fit with toc layout. So I need to get the
information for the left bar in search to! Would it possible you change that
and send my back those two files?

3) In the layout on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2195688 you can
see I want to hide the navigation bar for toc and search. For the moment it
isn't possible to hide it. Is it possible someone makes an option or
something like that, so it hides when you're in toc and search and comes
again when you go to man and info?

4) I've got a really good suggestion. Wouldn't it be nice to have bookmarks
in the layout too? The new layout makes it possible and it is more useable,
I think. It would fit in the bottom of the left bar.

I know you guys are really busy for feisty and my proposal is a bit late.
That's why I've ordered the list of what I want in priority. So you don't
need to do everything right away. I'm also thinking 1 and 2 need to be in
feisty. If you don't have enough time for 3 and 4, it can wait for the next
release after feisty.

(@mdke: I'm now using feisty, but the .xslt file isn't change. So I did not
need to change my version)

greetz Hannes Verschore
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