Perhaps we should also consider removing the screenshot from the front page entirely and add a "gallery" section for all kinds of screenshots.
On Sunday, December 5, 2010, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > On Sunday, December 5, 2010, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5 Dec 2010, at 14:47, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> >>> In any case, check the homepage of www.gtk.org >>> >>> It is easy, simple... actually I don't like it too much, but it is clear. >>> It contains to much information, >>> but gives easy access to the goals and to sections of the site. We are not >>> that distant (also >>> because... during the last web-design remake we used that for >>> inspiration...). >>> >>> It doesn't try to showcase GTK on windows and mac and linux! It doesn't >>> show glade either. >> >> Well, it doesn't showcase GTK on Mac because GTK on Mac requires X11 and >> looks ugly. >> I think GTK on Windows has improved slightly recently, but it's also not >> really something that >> they'd want to showcase. >> >> However, there is a big difference between GTK and GNUstep: Most people >> going to the GTK >> site will already have used an entire desktop environment that is written >> using GTK. The web >> site doesn't need to showcase GNOME, because pretty much everyone going to >> the GTK >> site will already be familiar with it. > > Agreed. > >> In contrast, people going to the GNUstep site are likely to have either no >> preconceived ideas about >> it, or think of it as 'that WindowMaker thing,' maybe 'a recreation of that >> old NeXT stuff'. For us, >> it is very important to highlight the fact that we support integration with >> environments that are not >> NeXT-like or even Mac-like. > > This is one of the reasons I'm for showing something in addition to > the NeXT look on the front page. I believe if people have to dig into > the website for more than 5 minutes they will categorize us as > nostalgic. It is very very important to give a sample of what we can > do right up front. > >> I agree that showing GORM is not so important - having a UI builder is no >> longer unusual or >> interesting, and you can't convey the difference between GORM / IB and >> other GUI editors in a screenshot. > > I agree with this. Gorm is important, but it's more important to show > what GNUstep is capable of in addition to Gorm. This is why showing > themes and showing apps which users will want to use is so important. > >> David > > GC > > -- > Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
