On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 01:04 +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > Hi! > > The links on the home page are designed to take potential *users* to a > > description of what each component of OOo does. So, when Base became a > > separate 'standalone' component, it got its own link > > http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html (and the Base folks asked > > for a link to their project page, which is now on the bottom of the page > > "For more information, please see the Base project page"). > > > I agree with your reasoning, yet I never understood however why 'Math' > had to be included. Isn't math used similarly to the Chart component? > used as an object inside either a writer/calc/impress-document. That's > at least my experience. Technically Math is available as a separate > program, but who ever uses that?
I don't know about users, but it appears as an icon on my "Start" menu (or I can type "oomath" on the command line :-) so that means we have chosen to present it to users as an application. > I do think we could update the project page, and make it more friendly > to both engineers and end users who are interested in details. I think > we could reduce the four pages to three, where the first contains the > accepted projects, possibly in a connected manner (e.g. fileformats > below, or above the writer, spreadsheet etc. components), and > website/marketing/support/ln10/documentation grouped apart. It needs > some thinking... but I believe such a solution would be better the the > problem noted by Ingrid Halama (and would improve the website in general). I agree. 'Projects' is a main menu tab, visible on every page of the site, yet its content is (IMHO) technical and boring. 'Contributing' then 'Programming' isn't much better. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
