Hi Christian, just a consideration/suggestion:
On Saturday 07 May 2011 22:30, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Bernhard Dippold > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Christian Lohmaier schrieb: > ... > > If not, we would have to consider > > a) the number of users with undetected distros > > b) their experience with their OS > > to find out which one should become default to allow most users to > > install LibreOffice without trouble. > > If current releases of ubuntu and debian don't identify themselves > anymore, I'd rather vote for > > c) display both at once, in seperated "boxes" / not attempting to > detect it anymore > > Not sure whether we should set up a poll on the download page asking > for people to fill it out when the package-management detection did > fail.. But OTOH If people know the wrong package type was chosen, > they already got enough experience... kind of a chicken-and-egg > problem. At least I'd suggest to change the hint above the boxes from "(When you visit this page, we try to detect your system, and offer you the right download automatically, but we may not succeed in all cases.)" to "<strong>If automatic detection of your system fails</strong>, please (1) chose your system manually from the listboxes (2) report the problem [Link to DetectorProblem page]" (or similar) On the "DetectorProblem page", which could even be a popup (?), detailed instructions should be given what to do/report (like those you mentioned: > What operating system are you using? > ( ) Ubuntu > ( ) Debian > ( ) Mandriva > ... Regards, Nino -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
