Re: User oriented release notes

["Javier Aravena" <phrodo 00 gmail com>]

Note that we can't possibly make something as attracting like that, and the reasons have nothing to do with the marketing team. Those notes focus on what the user can do. Gnome as it is with only gnome can do all the standard stuff, and that isn't impressive. We can't put gimp, nor abiword, nor gnumeric, nor jekoshier (or however it shoould be written), nor Transmission, nor Inkscape, nor dvdstyler, nor devede, nor gnome baker. Everything we can do is to showcase a basic desktop system, whose more exiting features for newcomers would be... hhmm.. clean, nice and I-do-not-get-in-your-way interface, the deskbar, tomboy, the posibility of changing the gtk style, icons, fonts, window border or whatever, straightforward preferences and ekiga... and that would be all, anything else is what the user espects of any system. It is attracting, but definetely not as much as saying "Make high-quality websites, photo books, DVDs, songs, slideshows, music
CDs, calendars, cards, prints, podcasts, music videos, documentaries,
and more." when gnome doesn't ship with the tools needed to do it, even when they're available (and not, I'm not saying gnome should mantain all that software and release it under the same release cycle as gnome, nobody would be happy about that).
One thing we could do is to create some new brand, a bundle, collection or something like that, so we can say something along the lines of "With ASDF, built on the shoulders of the gnome desktop you can do pretty much whatever you want, from editing the video of your vacation, to make the homework in a cooperative way with your co-workers in the same document, or keep the accounting of your home!... with ASDF there's nothing you can't do"

On 9/8/06, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:

Compare and contrast our notes with:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/

(ignore the videos, look at the text, what they are bragging about, etc.)
Luis

On 9/8/06, karderio < karderio gmail com> wrote:
> Hi :o)
>
> I just took a second look at the 2.16 release notes[1]. Although they
> were a very interesting read, on occasion they came over as perhaps a
> little too technical, leaving maybe the ghost of the impression that
> GNOME could be a desktop "by devs for devs".
>
> Please don't get me wrong, the notes are a fine job, but somehow the
> buzz the end user should be feeling is missing.
>
> What could take the edge off the buzz a user should be feeling when
> reading about GNOME ? Compilation options is one, links to "technical"
> fd.o standards another, there's the "code cleanups" section... Not to
> say these are bad, I don't mind them one bit - but telling a potential
> user about "compiling" even before he has seen the contraption can
> hardly promote it...
>
> The other criticism I could raise is a lack of at least one screenshot
> of the entire GNOME desktop.
>
> A couple of suggestions I would advance this perceived problem of mine
> would either be to relegate anything un-soft-and-fluffy to a
> "developers" section, or create a completely "Presenting GNOME" section
> elsewhere, full of much appreciated, soft fluffy topics for users.
>
> Perhaps the criticisms I have directed at the release notes are not
> meant for them at all. The notes in fact being an excellent interim,
> bolstering the "About GNOME" section, which manages to say piles about
> GNOME's goals without ever saying what it does or what it looks like.
>
> Love, Karderio.
>
>
> [1] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/C/index.html
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