Re: Cutting down the amount of text on the gnome.org

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 8/12/05, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:25 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > On 8/12/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > > <quote who="Andreas Nilsson">
> > >
> > > > Ok, something like this is what I had in mind.
> > > > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnomeorgfront-prop.png
> > > > (some extra stuff on in the top of that one, but ignore this for now as
> > > > I won't do anything about it right now)
> > >
> > > Alright - let's chat about this more some time, I think we can be quite a
> > > bit bolder than this, if we're going to make a change at all. :-)
> > >
> > > - Jeff
> >
> > The current front page and the new mockup doesn't really answer the
> > question " How do I get it?"
> >
> > To that end, that paragraph in the upper corner needs to point a page
> > about getting it. Renovating the Footware page and moving it to better
> > URL would be a good start.
> 
> In general, I don't think "how can I get it" is the first question
> we want to answer. At least, unless the way we answer is to point
> people to a page about all the operating systems that are using
> GNOME as their desktop.

Just for the record, note that we do have the capability to do this:
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/footware.shtml

and I'm not sure why we're not yet pointing to that from all over the website.

Luis