Re: What is GNOME?

[Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com>]

Just because one can point out some objections, doesn't mean it's worth
listening.

It's not easy to find a list of projects? What about visiting the
homepage and -- watch out, this is going to be complicated: -- clicking
the link called "projects"?

Also, in all these years I'm reading online discussions about GNOME, I
never ever noticed someone who asked: "Does anyone know why GNOME's logo
is a foot print?"

Is this really important stuff we should could care about?

The new version of the homepage content is in the wiki for months now.
Did anyone tried to help fill the missing bits? Or proof-read?

I've wasted countless hours to move the content from common HTML pages
to the wiki so that people can participate -- just to learn that one
doesn't get "the flow" now and the rest silently ignores every call for
participation.

But just post some unreflected objections and people respond.

WTF.

At least, someone could have had the idea to check whether these
non-issues apply in the current 'development' version.


Regards, 
Claus



On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:24 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I met with Denise last week and she pointed out:
>       * It's very hard to tell what GNOME is from our web pages. If
>         you don't know when you land on gnome.org, you aren't likely
>         to figure it out. An "easy to understand desktop" doesn't
>         really mean anything to non desktop/OS developers. When you go
>         to About GNOME, you get a list of our values/features but not
>         a definition, screenshot or list of projects.
>       * It's very hard to find a list of projects in GNOME.
>       * No where do we say what GNOME stands for.
>       * No where do we say why we have a foot print as a logo.
>         (There's mention of how it came about in a history here,
>         http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html, but no
>         mention of why we/they/he thought the foot was
>         representative.)
> Our current web pages are pretty much for people that already know
> what GNOME is, but we might want to rethink that as we roll out the
> new webpage.
> 
> I think it's a marketing problem. Thoughts?
> 
> Stormy