Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi *,
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:24:56PM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote:
I have a mockup of some minor revisions to the download page at
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.1/k_index.html
this does NOT include any of Maarten's concerns -- which by the
way I understand completely esp the native language comments. In
reality, it seems some of the NL sites do not have the "version"
we're advertising on this download -- 2.0.1.
You could reword it ot "OOo download selection (stable Version)"
well...this doesn't seem exactly accurate either :/ I'll think
about this more
Hmmmm...it might be
better to take out the NL dropddown altogether and just direct
people to the NL sites with a caveat that the most recent version
might not be available for the language of their choice -- yet.
This is an easy JS fix.
Hmm - I don't think this is a good choice.. Selecting a language
different than english takes you to the corresponding NL-download site
anyway - so a notice should be placed there, not on the main-dl site.
The NL project may choose to offer an RC for download, although not
officially "approved" because of missing QA or something.
OK, Happy Holidays and let me know what you want to do with this
revision if anything!
+1 for the new revision, esp. grouping the documentation-stuff to a
seperate section makes it less confusion (reduce the number of links to
choose from, make it easier to spot the one you're looking for)
But this can be sanitized (e.g. the installation instructions are both
listed in the general section and again in the documentation-section
(with different link-texts)) - similar is true for the release-notes and
system-requirements. I suggest to make those a single list-item.
Yes, I was in a quandry over this having looked at them. I'll
take another look. I feel SOME of the installation instructions
belogn with the Installation Information. I think the problem is
similar naming for somewhat different documentaion.
So remove "System requirements" & "Installation Instructions" from the
"Installation Information" section and move it to the point
"Documentation".
Documentation
* <link>Release Notes</link> & <link>System requirements</link>
* <link>Installation Instructions</link> & <link>Setup-Guide (pdf)</link>
* <link>User Guide</link>
Apart from that, the only thing that bothers me a bit is the wording of
the list-item "Languages: For language packs, please check the Native
Language Community supporting the language of your choice"
I don't think a newbie will understand what is meant by this. Maybe one
could reword it to
"Languages: You can add more languages to your installation using
Language Packs. For more details please check the <link>Language Pack
Overwiew</link>."
OK--I'll deal with this. I, too, couldn't make a lot of sense
over this particular item.
That other page should state that languagepacks are not needed to write
texts is other languages, that it includes support for UI-language and
Help (and that spelling-dictionaries, thesauri, hyphenation patterns
have to be downloaded seperately using DicOOo) and that you need to have
a full-version (of any language) installed to use a language pack.
It think this is too much to put to the download-page itself, so I'd
vote for a seperate page. (And AFAIK, there is only one
download-location for language packs, namely
oootranslation.services.openoffice.org - so you don't need to redirect
the users to the native-lang-community (which is again a term that
newbies probably don't understand).
ps. I have noticed that the bulleting on the OOo site is pretty
ugly with respect to spacing...huge indents!
Hmm - cannot confirm that... (what bullteting did you use?)
http://de.openoffice.org/doc/howto_2_0/office/multimedia_linux.html
uses default <ul><li></li></ul> style and looks good (IMHO).
But surely it depends whether you want a List embedded in some other
text or as the only content below a caption... (so "huge" is
relative...)
ciao
Christian
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Kay Schenk
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His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool
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