{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417/events","html_url":"https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417","id":94520986,"number":7417,"title":"[Regression] Less than optimal URLs in Protostar's Logo","user":{"login":"smz","id":552475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/552475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz","html_url":"https://github.com/smz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/smz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/labels/No%20Code%20Attached%20Yet","name":"No Code Attached Yet","color":"ededed"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-07-12T00:59:17Z","updated_at":"2015-07-12T09:12:49Z","closed_at":null,"body":"### Description\r\nSince when #7394 has been merged, we have what I consider a regression in the links associated to the logo in the Protostar template\r\n\r\n### Steps to reproduce the issue\r\n- Multilingual site\r\n- Default language = en-GB\r\n- SEF Off\r\n- Visit home page (*assuming it is a \"Single Article\"*)\r\n- Examine the link in the logo image\r\n\r\n\r\n### Expected result\r\nWell... this can be debated, but my expectation are one of the two (*in the preferred order*)\r\n- `/` (or baseurl + `/`) (*the language cookie will handle redirection to current language*)\r\n- `/index.php?lang=en`\r\n\r\n### Actual result\r\nSomething like this:\r\n`/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=102&lang=en`\r\n\r\n### Additional comments\r\n\r\nAs already commented in #7394, multilingual sites will not have a back-link to home page (/), not even in the logo and I'm afraid Google (*and other crawlers / site mappers*) will have a bit of hard time figuring out which is the home page.\r\n\r\nNote that the declared intent of #7394 was to have links of the `/index.php?lang=en` type (see: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/7394#issuecomment-120065034) with which I disagree for the above SEO related reasons, but would anyway be better than the \"fully specified URL\" we have now: the published article in the home page could change in time and the link found in content cached by Google or elsewhere will be invalid."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/comments/120702799","html_url":"https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417#issuecomment-120702799","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/7417","id":120702799,"user":{"login":"Bakual","id":1018684,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1018684?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual","html_url":"https://github.com/Bakual","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Bakual/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-12T09:12:49Z","updated_at":"2015-07-12T09:12:49Z","body":"I don't see the point in trying to create \"nice\" or \"short\" URLs for non-SEF mode.\r\nIt's the whole point of SEF mode to have such URLs.\r\n\r\n> BTW, having the domain name in that link would be a big mistake that could break many sites.\r\n\r\nI may have worded it wrong. I meant just having the base URL without any added query parameters. Be it `www.example.com`, `/`, `/joomla` or whatever. But no index.php and lang or itemid parameter."}}