Home page pictures and gallery

[Technius]

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.

[rolandlo]

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?

[Technius]

Images tend to be large and have to live in git history, which means they'll be there even after they're deleted.

[LittleHuba]

You could use git-lfs for this. It handles large files in the git history better than if you just upload them with git.

[Technius]

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.

[rolandlo]

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.

[LittleHuba]

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.

[rolandlo]

Ok, then let's use plain old git for the pictures.

[LittleHuba]

I think this is solved by #49