On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Christian Lohmaier < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alin, *, > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Alin Cretu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Christian Lohmaier < > > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Anders Holbøll <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> [...] > >> > http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/02/libreoffice_youre_do.html > >> > >> Well, people who are intending to bash LibreOffice will find something > >> no matter how nice the download page looks... > > [...] > > As far as I see it, that green "Download" button should be click-able and > > should trigger the download of the latest version of the installer > package > > for the detected operating system and language. > > This is not possible. A sinlge download button just won't work for > LibreOffice, as even on windows you have two downloads - the main > package & Help. > And it is more prominent on linux and Mac (where you cannot argue that > people don't read help anyway, and if they do they can use onlinehelp > :-) - there the languagepack, the translated user interface is already > a different package. > > And re sending the other systems & languages to a list, even in table form: > LO's set of files per release is huuuuge. A simple list just won't > work. The "alternative way to download LibreOffice" on the traditional > downloadpage gives an idea. Just open the page without javascript > enabled and you'll see the huge list.. > > Or just look at the list of languages in the new-style download. That > list alone, for one single version and OS/platform already is big.. > Agreed, it's big, but if you look at the Firefox download page for other systems and languages (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html) somehow they found a nice balance between multiple languages and multiple operating systems all in one single page. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
