On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 22:34 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > On 8/10/07, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe you could give a quick example of something that we wrote in the > > past that was suitable for end users but not for enthusiasts. > > Good exercise. Note that it is not only about writing but also about > how you organize and prioritize the information. > > Taking as an example http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ and pages underneath: > > - Everything before "Getting GNOME 2.16" tells nothing new to anybody > not new to GNOME. Always the same, yawn. Then the Get Footware > reference is good but the rest (building GNOME) is of little use of > 95% or people. My conclusion: the /start page hasn't served well our > primary targets.
I do want to combine that start page and the release notes themselves, instead of having a start page with a link to the release notes. Just requiring an extra click probably loses half of the people. > > - The whole http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/ is dedicated to > potential people new to GNOME. It even says "If you're already > familiar with GNOME, you may want to skip ahead". Second page in the > sequence that has failed to serve our primary targets. Two extra > clicks before you get into the real stuff. Yeah, I guess we can have a very short "GNOME is" sentence and just link to an About page on the regular web site pages. > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnfrontpage.html is a good > page. I would only add a message more specific to distro maintainers > since they were the main ones to build GNOME with the new Metacity > effects. > > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnfeatures.html is > relatively ok. Well, normal end users are clearly taken in mind in the > first place. That page could serve better our main targets by having > less text like "a powerful new note-taking application called Tomboy." > (Tomboy was not new at all for our targets" and more like "By > providing hooks via standardized DBUS methods, other programs are able > to interact with power saving...". Developers talking to developers > about why the new cools stuff is cool. I think that's something for the For Developers section. That wasn't in 2.16, but I want to bring it back. Oddly, I guessed that it was you who changed that structure for 2.16. I guess you're not guilty. > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnusability.html is also ok > but also has primarily end users in mind. What about a mention to > application developers about how these usability improvements affect > their development and how can they benefit from them? Again, that would be good for the For Developers section, though I don't know what we could say in this case. > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnbackend.html - this is > what I'm talking about! > > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rni18.html ok, good one. > > - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/notes/en/rnlookingforward.html not > bad, and now with the roadmapping work it will be much better. Let's > concentrate in the novelties our primary targets are waiting for. Thanks for this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
