Re: need help with gnome-projects gnome-products



Hi, 

just a remark:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:47:07 +0100
"Thilo Pfennig" <thilopfennig foresightlinux org> wrote:

> Hi Quim,
> 
> if you search for "epiphany" in google you  get :
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/
> 
> This is 100% marketing. I dont see any development there.

This is because you probably didn't click any link. Just test the most
important one: "Download". This leads to LGO. It looks like a developer
gone mad, not like something that is supposed to be usable.

Or click the "simple" link at the start. It leads to:

 http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/documentation/manifesto.html

And this page looks differently to the main page. If you then click on
"News", you get yet another design! The forth one I believe.

And should I start about Dia's homepage?
 
 http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

I've recently seen an independent free software for Windows promotion
page -- Dia was the number one application people searched for. If
it would have lead to the above page, I doubt it could transfer the
attention into downloads. However, there's a seperate page for Dia for
Windows:

 http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/index.php

Maybe the second page has better chances but I doubt that, too.
Unfortunately, Windows users are unlikely to click the link on the
second page to get to the first page to _learn_ that such amazing
applications are available under Linux as well.

In contrast, look at some open source applications for Windows:

 http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/index.htm
 http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

When I look at these pages I really wonder why anybody (except
developers and very "caring" people) should switch away from Windows.
A more complete collection is available here:

 http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

However, you're right to wonder how introducting confusing stuff such
as "Products" pages could make it better.

The only suggestion that made sense back then was Jeff's to present
stuff like "GNOME for mobile devises", "GNOME for Windows", etc. But
it's probably sufficient to have a single page for that.


Regards,
Claus



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