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>

2 files changed, 43 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/cgit.css b/cgit.css
index 5dd43b0..b14f77e 100644
--- 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 33e3e7f..f5e087f 100644
--- 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>");