Re: WGO : GNOME Software Map

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi!

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:33:53 +0200
Gergely Nagy <greg gnome hu> wrote:

> I'd say the major "mistake" is that everybody assumes something
> different :) 

Hehe. That's not a mistake, that's a feature! ;-)

Seriously: I admit 'mistake' was not the right word. However, isn't
that one of the advantages of a discussion? To be able to remove
misunderstandigs due to different assumptions?

You said, the 'map' is useful because it's authoritative. What does
this mean? An experienced user isn't going to mind what GNOME calls
'authoritative'. And an inexperienced user is going to use whatever the
distribution installs by default. They have no clue what a 'GNOME' is.
For them, their distribution is authoritative.

You also mention that the software map is translated. This is of course
nice but as a user I'd probably be more interested in a localized
version of download.com -- I know there are several such maps (for
Windows apps) in Germany that are not just translated but deal with
local requirements as well.

And I'd consider a translated version of an incomplete software map
rather useless. Maybe that's just me.

Btw, you may like to check on this involvement stuff, again. It
basically means that people are not interested even if we make nice
looking pages with nice words and proper graphics. They won't pay
attention becasue they will not even click the link to the page.

Anyway. I do not suggest that anybody stops to spend his time on making
a software map. It's his time, not mine. In fact, me and a few other
guys spend quite some time on making a software map for GNOME as a
replacement for the old one. Back then, that made sense because it was
designed to promote the complete GNOME eco-system. [1]

However, since gnomefiles is running well, we should really ask
ourselves why we should introduce another one.

And the points mentioned by Jeff can easily be satiesfied by the
project.gnome.org/* homepages, and any other homepages elsewhere, be
this Novell apps or whatever.


Cheers,
Claus

[1] http://gnome-apps.berlios.de/