Hi Bernd, On 18/07/16 22:17, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Am 18.07.2016, 10:13 Uhr, schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde > <[email protected]>: > >> On 17-07-16 22:42, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote: >>> Hi Angelos, >>> thanx a lot for the hint. It works! >>> >>> This is now indeed the third variation of a working setup in a row. >>> We already had to enable three repositories, then two, and now it's >>> only >>> one. Unfortunately the instructions on the download page never >>> manage to >>> reflect those changes. >> >> I think they do, (or at least we try) but for Ubuntu/Debian there are >> just a lot of possible options, and trying to describe that clearly [0] >> apparently does not make it really easier, just because of all the >> possible options and/or combinations. > > The download page for debian/ubuntu reflects the coders motto: > Minimize the code! > But people who are not used to read code have really difficulties > getting the picture there. > > 1. I am confident, that the biggest part of Ubuntu users would like to > have a release with the same features as they have if using the > installer on Windows. The offered release (http://qgis.org/debian) > does not do this. This is not mentioned anywhere that it lacks > features. People have to find out by themselves. > > 2. "Release with ubuntugis dependencies" is as cryptic as it can be. > But it is simply the version most people expect to receive. A full > sentence of what the differences between the repositories are would > not let the page explode. Maybe mention that MrSID and ECW is not > supported in contrary to Windows due to legal issues (and that you > have to compile stuff to get it) > > 3. The instructions to add the ubuntugis functions are outdated for > several releases already. I remember it worked with the > ubuntugis-repository plus the ppa. The next version, I had to add as > well the debian-repository. The next time, I had to remove debian > again. Now it seems it works with the ubuntugis repository only, and > no ppa. > > If you do not give those explanations, where should they come from then? > Have mercy and simply add more text. Form follows function. If the > function breaks the form of the page, then maybe change the design.
I think you already have a quite good idea what information is missing and how to explain that. Would you mind writing a proposal? It can be here found around line 90: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/edit/master/source/site/forusers/alldownloads.rst Thanks a lot Matthias _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
