Re: Updated Software Map test site

[Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug org>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 06:29, Michael Davies wrote:
> i.e. Instead of Microsoft Excel (.xls) I'd suggest .xls (Microsoft
> Access).  You'll have some overlap, like *.doc mapping to M$ Word and
> also Adobe Framemaker and also Corel(?) WordPerfect.

Ok, have a look at 

http://gnome.foxhut.org:81/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=275

and tell me how it looks now. I changed from using parenthesis to a dash
because it looked cluttered.

> As for the categories I'd suggest having an "Office" category instead of
> "Microsoft Office" and "Star Office" separately as there will eventually
> be Abiword, gwp etc which don't deserve their own grouping, but more
> importantly, people will think, "Ok, someone send me a document in .sdw
> format, what can I use to read it?", rather than, "Oh, sdw, that's Star
> Office".

I popped on to #usability tonight to get a quick comment about this
format looked best. I should have known better than that, but Kenny
Grauke (sorry, if I screwed the spelling) suggested something *really*
cool.

IRC LOG
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<Dekfftafi>	what should really happen:
<Dekfftafi>	- user receives strange file
<Dekfftafi>	- user double clicks this file in her file manager
<Dekfftafi>	- file manager says "I dunno what to do with this, but it's
clearly a Microsoft Word file"
<Dekfftafi>	"You can find some apps to deal with this at this
<a>marvelous website</a>"
<Dekfftafi>	so that way instead of trudging through categories of
stuff...
<drfickle>	but either way the website is laid out, the link could pop
right to the category
<Dekfftafi>	right :)
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Wouldn't this just rock!?!? I told him to mention it on the Nautilus
mailing list. Just though that was neat and you guys might think so too.

-- 

Steve Fox
http://k-lug.org