Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:42:04 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compare and contrast our notes with: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ (ignore the videos, look at the text, what they are bragging about, etc.) Luis You're comparing apples with oranges. Our release notes should

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:08:09 +0200 karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could take the edge off the buzz a user should be feeling when reading about GNOME ? Compilation options is one, links to technical fd.o standards another, there's the code cleanups section... Not to say these

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/9/06, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis! Isn't Apples equivalent of our release notes more likely this? http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html And yeah, they kick our asses in catchy copy-writing here too :) That is more equivalent, but I guess I'm suggesting

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread karderio
Hi :o) On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:10 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:08:09 +0200 karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could take the edge off the buzz a user should be feeling when reading about GNOME ? Compilation options is one, links to technical fd.o

Re: Page Layout Update

2006-09-09 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 02:32 +0200, karderio wrote: Hi :o) On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:33 +0100, Lee Tambiah wrote: Please find version 0.1 (.svg format) for the Secondary Page Layout on the LayoutPlanning page at:- http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/LayoutPlanning Secondary Page

Re: Page Layout Update

2006-09-09 Thread Luke Stroven
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 02:32 +0200, karderio wrote: I certainly wouldn't put planet GNOME feeds on the front page. Users either won't know what people are talking about, or be confused to the point of suspecting the site to be compromised when they see a bloke talking about his last holidays in

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:22:15 +0200 karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps, but in any case we still need to cater for the lowest common denominator : grandma :) Well, as I said previously: Grandma's are never going to read our release notes, unless their are interested in

Re: User oriented release notes

2006-09-09 Thread karderio
Hi :o) I really don't know how to argue this any better, it just seems to be becoming silly. I will simply restate that to effectively promote GNOME through our website, things should be presented in a simple non technical way, technical information being presented in separate sections for those

Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Max Jonas Werner
Hi guys, I've just started Gnome 2.16 after 2 days of compiling. :) Looks great but there's one thing that irritated me: The Epiphany home page is http://www.google.com; per default. Wouldn't it be better to set it to http://www.gnome.org/start/X.YY; for every release? Another option could be to

Re: Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Max Jonas Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but there's one thing that irritated me: The Epiphany home page is http://www.google.com; per default. Wouldn't it be better to set it to http://www.gnome.org/start/X.YY; for every release? No, because that's release notes. As is being

Re: Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Luca Cavalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Another option could be to create a Gnome start page just for the purpose of using it as home page in Epiphany. Hmmm... maybe. But don't most distros overwrite that anyway?

Re: Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Panos Laganakos
Maybe an Epiphany specific what's new page might be more appropriate. Although the start release page sounds good too. Point is that if a user switches from a distro's default (say Firefox), he'd want to see what this new browser his friend proposed, has to offer. Thats why I suggest something

Re: Epiphany Homepage

2006-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/9/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Luca Cavalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Another option could be to create a Gnome start page just for the purpose of using it as home page in Epiphany.

Re: Journalists contacted

2006-09-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Unfortunately I don't. I do have the business card of one of the British linux magazines (Linux Format I think). I have tried Wired before using their web form when I was doing GUADEC press releases. But I did not get any response from them. I can try again next cycle or perhaps try to set up