Re: [libreoffice-website] Tasks and volunteers
How does this work. If my name is not there do I just had it and let you know what I can help with? Because I don't really have a task. I can do a bit of everything but I probably be most useful doing systems administration since this is what I do for a living. Seb. 2010/12/13 Samuel Gómez fuljen...@gmail.com: To all volunteers, Please fill in your row at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Tasks_and_volunteers If you think some columns should be created/deleted/merged/split please discuss it or simply do it. Also, instead of YES/(NO) we could use numbers from 1 to 5 meaning less or more commitment. -- Make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. Bill Gates, 1998. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-website] Download page
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Carlos Jenkins hastciber...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefan, 2010/12/8 Stefan Weigel stefan.wei...@bildungskreis.org I would never consider showing a selection of distros Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Mint, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE rather than a selection of package types Windows, Mac x86, Mac PPC, Linux x86 rpm, Linux x86 deb, Linux 64 bit rpm, Linux 64 bit deb. You have a good point. But I hope some day LibreOffice will be in a lot of distros, we're aiming to become the default OfficeSuite for the mayor, if not all, the Linux Distributions out there. Please check the Banshee website and how the Download section behave: http://banshee.fm/download/ I'm pretty sure his point was exactly the opposite of the banshee download page. We need also, analyse the download widget from a user perspective, a list box with options, if quick for people who know what to do, it's absolutely not good for normal users. I disagree. The vast majority of people in the world are indeed capable of making a choice when presented with a simple question. It's one thing to guide a user in making the appropriate and another to make a choice for them. I know, if you ask for Ubuntu a lot users if they need to choose deb or rpm, they will not know, cause they use Ubuntu Software Center to install things (and again my first point). Sure that's why you try to guide to the DEB file. Don't get me wrong though. I actually like the banshee download page. It's the second step I don't like. The process gives me instruction while I specifically came to the page to Download something. And as Marc Paré stated nor they will know if 32bits or 64bits. Seb said: They are 3 possible answer DEB, RPM or Neither. Yes, for now, we hope in the future we have instructions per distros like the Banshee site. Also we need to jungle with +arch, +lang, +download method, so it's a little more complex. But I think Samuel is on the right track. No. There really are only 3 possibilities. Most popular distros use RPM or DEB. And others use something specific to that distro in which case the probably want the source anyway. If you use a distro that uses deb or rpm you download the file, double click on it, then the install starts. Simple. And everyone is familiar with that. because that's how it's done on every major operating system. Download, double click, install. And for the those who don't have RPM or DEB. Well don't worry about them because they know what they are doing. In fact the last thing they probably want is a piece of Javascript telling them what to do. As far as architectures go. The OO.o code is not exactly a success story as far as ports go. I don't think we need to worry about that just yet. Language is trivial. I'm almost 100% sure that people know what language they speak and can select it from a list. And keep it a list because people often do install their office suite in a diffrent language. For example I am a French speaking Canadian but I was born in an bilingual part of Canada. As such I run most software in English but my office suite in French. Download method is also trivial. There can only be one. In any case we have half of use that wants the distro thing and other want the package thing. So lets compromise and do a bit of both. See attached image. SEB. PS: selecting other would add an extra step to choose between DEB, RPM and Source. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-website] Download page
It think we are making this much hard than it could be. They are 3 possible answer DEB, RPM or Neither. So if you can detect you default to the right package. If you cannot detect, are not sure you detected right, or you detect something that does not use deb or rpm. You default to select your pacakge. Also the source package in tar.gz need to be an option. Gentoo and slackware users for example will probably want that choice. If you are worried about people that don't know. Put a small link above the box. I need help selecting the right package! Set the link to display a box on hover. If you are using Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Xandros, etc. You should try the .deb package If you are using Red hat, CentOS, Fedora, Suse, OpenSuse, Mandriva etc. You should try the .deb package If you are using Gentoo, Mandrake or another distribute you may want to use the source package. (People usually at least know which distro they have. It's usually pretty clear because of the big bright logo at boot. :) ) This can be followed by the language selection box. Then by 2 checkboxes. -64bit -torrent Seb. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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Hi Website list, Just a quick message to introduce myself. So of you may know me from oo.o I used to participate in the art project. However I'm actually a system administrator so I figured I might be able to lend a hand around here. I have over 10 years experience with Linux system, Apache, mysql, bind etc. I do html, php and can hack togheter bash and the odd perl script where need. So If can help with anything let me know. Seb -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-website] Download page
Hi, Sorry I just joined and probably missed half this discussion. Wouldn't it be acceptable to have a page similar to the opera (http://www.opera.com/browser/download/) download page and when the page can detect you distro it focuses the drop down to you distro. If it cannot identify it just focuses the menu to please select you distribution. The the second drop down for 32 or 64bit. cheers, Seb. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Carlos Jenkins hastciber...@gmail.com wrote: Again, for Christian: [Debian] Chrome Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3 [Debian] Iceweasel Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-AR; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101028 Iceweasel/3.5.15 (like Firefox/3.5.15) [Ubuntu] SeaMonkey Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 -- http://www.cjenkins.net/ http://csl-tec.softwarelibrecr.org/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
