On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:49 AM, matthiasm <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09.01.2009, at 06:41, ex cord wrote: > >> Is 1.1.9 recommended? What are the major drawbacks of using 1.1.9 >> rather than 1.3? > > > 1.1.9 is absolutely fine. It is a great and very stable version.
That's good to hear! Fabien wrote: > BTW, we should flag FLTK 2.0 as 'experimental' in the website. > Even Bill is not sure it will be continued from what I read few months ago ... Let me offer you my skin-deep impression of FLTK from an outsider's perspective: when I look at the site, the only place where 1.1.9 is mentioned (on the front page) is in that "Quick Info" pane. The rest of the entire front page has news about version 1.3. This gives the impression that 1.1.9 is probably starting to smell funny and that 1.3 is likely what I should be using right now. Further, for anyone who's seen the site in the last half decade, it implies that you've been trying to finish version 2.0 but can't. Comments I've seen about FLTK around the web indicate that potential users think you've been working on 2.0 for ages and ages and getting nowhere. To easily remedy this simple problem of misperception and also improve a couple other things, I suggest: 1. Create a "News" page (link to in the top nav bar) where all those updates about version 1.3 snapshots can go. New users investigating GUI toolkit options who stumble upon the fltk homepage want to see what you have in that Quick Info pane. 2. Move that Quick Info pane content to the center of the front page. 3. Remove the links to 1.3 and 2.0 from the front page. 4. Remove the link to Screenshots from the nav bar and put it into the content of the front page. 5. Create a new "Development" page (linked to from that top "menu bar") with some info on versions and how to get involved in development of FLTK. It's there you'd put the links to 1.3 and 2.0 that you removed from the front page, along with a blurb of text clearly pointing out that 1.3 is the "development" version and 2.0 is the "experimental" version. 6. Change the headline on the FLTK Apps --> Home page from "Recent FLTK Applications News" to just "FLTK Applications". 7. Update the 1.1.x docs to say 1.1.9 instead of 1.1.8. 8. I don't know what to make of the "Bugs & Features" link in the nav bar. If it's your bug and feature request tracker, I'd move the link to it from the nav bar to the new Development page. 9. Last thing: seriously consider changing the color of the links on the site from bright red to a softer or maybe more brownish red. The current color tends to "burn my eyes" on a high-contrast flat panel monitor and make me want to navigate away. :) These really aren't many changes, but I think they would make a big change in the impression FLTK makes on prosective users. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
