Home page pictures and gallery
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It would be nice to have some pictures on the front page to show what Xournal++ looks like.
We should also add a gallery demonstrating various features of Xournal++.
I'm not sure about file hosting though. I don't think it would be a good idea to put images on this repo, so it would be better if we could find some free open-source-friendly file hosting service.
This would be in perfect accordance with #5:
looks visually appealing and gives a visual impression how working with Xournal++ looks like
Why do you think that putting images in the repo would be a bad idea? This seems to be the recommended way by mkdocs. Is it just a question of storage size?
Images tend to be large and have to live in git history, which means they'll be there even after they're deleted.
You could use git-lfs for this. It handles large files in the git history better than if you just upload them with git.
git-lfs doesn't work with Pages, but maybe it'll be cloned automatically when Actions builds the website? I'll try it out tomorrow.
What about doing it like with the screenshots linked in the appdata xml xournalpp/xournalpp#3094, namely to have them stored under some user-images.githubusercontent.com adress (by opening an issue and adding the image)? From the experience we had witlh git-lfs (where bandwidth of 1GB/month didn't suffice anywhere nearly), this may be preferable to git-lfs.
Interesting idea... Though I'm not quite sure if this is a great idea in the long run.
All in all I don't think images are a major problem for git in itself, since website pictures need to be compressed anyway. So we are talking about a maximum of 2MB per picture.
Further the main problem of big files in repos is cloning to your own machine, which nobody needs to do for this repo.
I think simply adding pictures to the normal git repo is absolutely sufficient for our use case. No git-lfs, no hacks, just plain old git.
Ok, then let's use plain old git for the pictures.
I think this is solved by #49