Re: "What is GNOME?"

[Jeff Fortin Tam <nekohayo gmail com>]

Le vendredi 15 mai 2015 à 10:18 +0100, Allan Day a écrit :
> Jeff Fortin Tam <nekohayo gmail com> wrote:
> ...
> > Methinks it might be time to retire the "discover GNOME 3" concept and
> > turn it into "What is GNOME?" page. It's not 2011 anymore, it's not like
> > we're still comparing ourselves to GNOME 2 :)
>
> I think it's important to provide an overview of the actual UX that we
> provide. We never had that in the GNOME 2 days, and the lack of
> user-facing information was something that people frequently
> complained about.
[...]

Ah, I think I was a bit unclear. Let me distill my thoughts:

- The current contents of the GNOME3 page are great, shouldn't go away;
- That page's contents should be expanded to introduce what GNOME *is*;
- The resulting page might as well be renamed "What is GNOME" because it
wouldn't be strictly about GNOME3 anymore, but GNOME3 and GNOME in
general. May be more future-proof that way (my argument of "It's been
4-5 years, GNOME3 is not a 'new' thing anymore").

So yes present the UX, but introduce the thing before doing that! :) and
take the opportunity of that intro paragraph to link to other aspects
like the upcoming "Technologies" page, the charitable mission, etc.

Hope that makes sense.

Jeff