... it's the only way to be sure
I stumbled on this tip today on planet.gnome.org about how to tune what gets displayed on your favourite planet - this has made me extremely happy, as I now get to have a userContent.css file that says:
@-moz-document domain(planet.opensolaris.org) {
div.observatory div.person-info { display:none; }
div.observatory div.post { display:none; }
}
Why? Well, in it's own words, "Planet OpenSolaris is a window into the world, work and lives of OpenSolaris hackers and contributors." - more particularly, I don't feel it's the right place for documentation or marketing spiel about OpenSolaris - there's other places for that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that those guys are writing content about OpenSolaris that Google will cache and end-users will benefit from - they're doing a fantastic job! Personally though, I go to planet.opensolaris.org to read what people think: I don't go there to read software documentation or watch hundreds of screen shots of installation wizards, let alone read about quintuple-boot setups (gak!). Come on guys - there's got to be real people behind the marketeers?
So, to paraphrase Lt. Ripley, I vote we take off and userContent.css those entire posts from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Of course, I could be wrong - if so, feel free to load your text editor of choice, and with feeling, type div.timf div.person-info ... I'll totally understand!
Excellent tip. I too was wondering about the relevance of the Observatory posts on Planet OpenSolaris. Thanks!
Posted by Menno on July 22, 2008 at 07:31 PM IST #
Yeah, there are times when I think stuff gets posted here that diminishes the rest of the content. The Observatory posts are just one example. (The translations of the CDDL or whatever it was that jgris was posting are another...)
I wonder if it doesn't make sense to just remove the Observatory posts altogether, and recommend that they posted elsewhere. (Alternatively, if there is a way to have those blogs "always" compressed so that only the title shows, that would be cool too.)
The other "advice" I'd give to bloggers is, you don't have to put your content in the blog itself... if you have so much to say that it really deserves a separate document, then you can post a *link*. (Link to the content elsewhere, perhaps in another blog, perhaps -- better -- in a more persistent form such as persistent web pages.)
That said, I personally do use planet.os.o to reach out to other OS folks. Its incredibly useful, e.g. when announcing the post of new test binaries for audiohd.
Posted by Garrett D'Amore on July 22, 2008 at 07:55 PM IST #
Yep Garrett, if you just have:
div.observatory div.post-contents { display:none; }
then it'll only show a compressed post - just the title with a link, and not any of the content. I'd suggested on advocacy-discuss a while back that this stuff get moved somewhere more appropriate, but in the meantime, this works for me.
Posted by Tim Foster on July 22, 2008 at 08:23 PM IST #
Woohoo, thanks Tim. While I think the Observatory posts are hugely valuable, I just don't think p.o.o. is the right place for them to live. I find I just get annoyed at all the cruft and clutter, not to mention the anonymity of it.
Posted by stevel on July 23, 2008 at 01:14 AM IST #