These are good and valid concerns. I am trying to think how to implement those changes.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a Skype user who has recently been introduced to Ekiga. Of > course, I now have the task of convincing some of my contacts to use > Ekiga, so I went to the Ekiga website to see what Windows users would > be up against in installing the app. I did not even get to download > the application before realizing that Windows users would not be able > to handle Ekiga. My criticism is below, please keep in mind that it is > constructive criticism intended to help Ekiga, not a "rant" or troll. > > This is copied verbatim from my post on the ubuntu-users list: > > 1) If the user looks for "ekiga" via google, then the url is > gnomemeeting.org for some reason. What is that? (Yes, _I_ know, but > should I have to explain that to potential users?). If the user types > in ekiga.com then she arrives at ekiga.net. Redirect? That scares > Windows users, who suspect malware and trickery. In my Windows days, I > would have left right here. $ wget -S www.gnomemeeting.org --2009-05-14 15:35:26-- http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ Resolving www.gnomemeeting.org... 130.104.229.225 Connecting to www.gnomemeeting.org|130.104.229.225|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:35:26 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Length: unspecified [text/html] There should be a redirect to Ekiga.net (Apache mod_rewrite) so that search engines elevate the Ekiga website. For example, as Mozilla does with 'mozilla.net': > wget -S www.mozilla.net --2009-05-14 15:38:39-- http://www.mozilla.net/ Resolving www.mozilla.net... 63.245.209.24 Connecting to www.mozilla.net|63.245.209.24|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:38:39 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Location: http://www.mozilla.com/ Content-Length: 288 Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=972 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Location: http://www.mozilla.com/ [following] --2009-05-14 15:38:39-- http://www.mozilla.com/ Resolving www.mozilla.com... 63.245.213.13 Connecting to www.mozilla.com|63.245.213.13|:80... connected. ... This requires web admin access to ekiga.net. > 2) "Downloads: Choose your distribution below and start downloading." > What is a distribution? How do I download this? Where is the big green > "download here" animated GIF? > > 3) If the user happens to find the Windows link (and even knows that > is what she needs) then she gets a page with no files to download! She > will _not_ open the README file to find what she needs! > > 4) If the user actually did find and open the README file under > Windows downloads, the file contains this single line of text (no > hyperlink): > Please download from : http://snapshots.ekiga.net/snapshots/win32/archives/ > > 5) If the user actually follows the hyperlink then she goes to an > Apache directory listing. This is what she sees: > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.1beta-7144.exe 02-Oct-2008 23:08 18M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.1beta-7144d.exe 02-Oct-2008 23:05 61M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.1beta-7205.exe 14-Oct-2008 20:31 18M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.1beta-7205d.exe 14-Oct-2008 20:31 61M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.2beta-7300.exe 30-Oct-2008 21:33 22M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.2beta-7300d.exe 30-Oct-2008 21:30 65M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.2beta-7316.exe 02-Nov-2008 09:49 22M > [ ] ekiga-setup-3.0.2beta-7316d.exe 02-Nov-2008 09:59 65M > > Which one should she click on? How much further do you think she is > going to get? For these, it is an issue of getting access to Ekiga CMS and making the enhancements. Who can give that? Simos _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
