On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Stormy Peters wrote:
Speaking of which, we do very little (if anything?) to advertise GNOME
apps. I think users pick operating systems based on apps. They have a
task, they pick an app. They don't decide to use Windows or Linux or
Mac, they decide to use Photoshop or Gimp or iTunes.
An idea me and Lucas had a while back was the "Not the GNOME App Store".
Mockup here [1]
This would be a website with a selection of the coolest GNOME
applications. The idea is a place with downloads of these for Windows,
OS X and the most popular Linux distributions.
The browser could detect your OS, so some of the software would be
disabled if you're running a non-free OS (as they aren't ported over)
and would invite people to do the switch to a distribution running the
GNOME desktop.
This could either be a short campaign running for 6 months or so, or a
permanent place on gnome.org
1. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome-appstore.png
Do you have more design ideas around this? Would we want
to have more software listed than could reasonably fit on
a front page. Maybe a dozen on the front page and a link
for more? Should there be an actual overview page for
each application? I don't want to over-complicate, but
we could offer a bit more pretty easily.
I could whip up a functional system to run this in an
evening, probably. If you have more ideas, could you
do more mockups? If I do the design, it'll be as ugly
as Pulse. ;)
Seriously, we could make this happen in a week.