The changes in online help presented in https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 looks terrible (worse then what existed before). I wonder who made those design decisions: In the image https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/thumb/7/7a/Screenshot_help-desktop.png/500px-Screenshot_help-desktop.png there are wide borders to the left and right of the page, the font is tiny to unreadable, and the lines are much too long. Such design is against all reasonable design rules, and it's definitely no improvement!
Despite the cloud persona... you don't like whitespace or what in particular is that bad? Please elaborate "all reasonable design rules".
I guess the font size comes from the old font size used in the help viewer. I made the design decision to center the content area with wide screens. It is not against reasonable design rules. To make it look better, we could have the header and footer be 100%, like in here: https://readthedocs.org/ See how the content in that one is centered as well (and context is documentation)? If you have another idea, such as aligning everything to the left like here: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ please express it. It is true that the font size and line length is bad right now and we should tweak it to result in a maximum of 85 characters per line.
(I wrote in comment #0) > In the image > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/thumb/7/7a/Screenshot_help- > desktop.png/500px-Screenshot_help-desktop.png there are wide borders to the > left and right of the page, the font is tiny to unreadable, and the lines > are much too long. > Such design is against all reasonable design rules, and it's definitely no > improvement! (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > (...) Please elaborate "all reasonable design rules". Recommended reading if you don't see the obvious after having read my complaints could be "Digital Typography" by Donald E. Knuth, just for example. Another title would be "Mut zur Typographie" by Jürgen Gulbins (German, obviously). Or try "Screen Design Manual" by Frank Thissen (ISBN 978-3-540-43923-3).
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2) [...] > It is true that the font size and line length is bad right now and we should > tweak it to result in a maximum of 85 characters per line. Depending on the line spacing (and the font being used), 85 characters could be too much already (Knuth recommends something like 66 characters per line). My preference absolutely is: 1) A reasonable window size, meaning NOT too wide, because your eyes get lost while reading such long lines. 2) A reasonable default font size (with at most 72 characters per line) 3) Flowed text so that a resized window rearranges the text being displayed So the most terrible solution would be a very wide window with tiny font and scrollbars for both dimensions (the current example almost has it all).
I have no problems with the new design off the online help. The font size may be a bit bigger but nice work Bouvjaga. Best regards Xavier
Ilmari Lauhakangas committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=50b850013374e0f711b5cded92739934d758bf1f tdf#114709, tdf#112758, tdf#112757