Make frontpage friendlier

This is an attempt to make the index page more usable by changing how
repo groups and repo links are displayed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>

diff --git a/cgit.css b/cgit.css
index 5dd43b001a58c162c123d61d2be7613a16cd3808..b14f77ebdfb84497803029b03f26843d7b2eb34c 100644 (file)
--- a/cgit.css
+++ b/cgit.css
@@ -355,6 +355,36 @@ table.diff td div.del {
 }
 
 table.list td.repogroup {
-       padding-top: 1em;
-       border-bottom: solid 1px #777;
+       font-style: italic;
+       color: #888;
+}
+
+a.button {
+       font-size: 80%;
+       color: #333;
+       background-color: #ccc;
+       border: solid 1px #999;
+       padding: 0em 0.5em;
+       margin: 0.1em 0.25em;
+}
+
+a.button:hover {
+       text-decoration: none;
+       background-color: #eee;
+}
+
+a.primary {
+       font-size: 100%;
+}
+
+a.secondary {
+       font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+td.toplevel-repo {
+
+}
+
+table.list td.sublevel-repo {
+       padding-left: 1.5em;
 }

diff --git a/ui-repolist.c b/ui-repolist.c
index 33e3e7fdcc45690aad81d66ebee33d31cdd84dcf..f5e087f36564d68dbd78587137d0ace5e33c4902 100644 (file)
--- a/ui-repolist.c
+++ b/ui-repolist.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void cgit_print_repolist(struct cacheitem *item)
             "<th class='left'>Name</th>"
             "<th class='left'>Description</th>"
             "<th class='left'>Owner</th>"
-            "<th class='left'>Links</th></tr>\n");
+            "<th>Links</th></tr>\n");
 
        for (i=0; i<cgit_repolist.count; i++) {
                repo = &cgit_repolist.repos[i];
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ void cgit_print_repolist(struct cacheitem *item)
                        html("</td></tr>");
                        last_group = repo->group;
                }
-               html("<tr><td>");
-               html_link_open(cgit_repourl(repo->url), NULL, NULL);
+               htmlf("<tr><td class='%s'>",
+                     repo->group ? "sublevel-repo" : "toplevel-repo");
+               html_link_open(cgit_repourl(repo->url), repo->desc, NULL);
                html_txt(repo->name);
                html_link_close();
                html("</td><td>");
@@ -49,18 +50,15 @@ void cgit_print_repolist(struct cacheitem *item)
                html("</td><td>");
                html_txt(repo->owner);
                html("</td><td>");
-               html_link_open(cgit_pageurl(repo->name, "commit", NULL),
-                              "Commit: display last commit", NULL);
-               html("C</a> ");
-               html_link_open(cgit_pageurl(repo->name, "diff", NULL),
-                              "Diff: see changes introduced by last commit", NULL);
-               html("D</a> ");
+               html_link_open(cgit_repourl(repo->url),
+                              "Summary", "button");
+               html("S</a>");
                html_link_open(cgit_pageurl(repo->name, "log", NULL),
-                              "Log: show history of the main branch", NULL);
-               html("L</a> ");
+                              "Log", "button");
+               html("L</a>");
                html_link_open(cgit_pageurl(repo->name, "tree", NULL),
-                              "Tree: browse the files in the main branch", NULL);
-               html("T</a>");
+                              "Files", "button");
+               html("F</a>");
                html("</td></tr>\n");
        }
        html("</table>");