On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 02:01 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > *sigh* Using KMail now with mail delivery on and now I forget to check the receiver. > okay ill resend my reply Thanks for giving it a try. Here are the problems I see with the mockup: - Are you NEW? Go over *there*. This isn't for you. (not very welcoming) - Okay, now that we got rid of the n00bs in the room. Let me tell you information you likely already know. Here's what an Edition is... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah - Are you going to have a single download link above the fold? --- page fold --- Actual download links down here - What happens if you have more than 4 desktop environments? How does the design handle that? - The DVD section might as well not be there. It's down in Antarctica. And how do you explain what the DVD has in it in relation to the spins? - What if I want KDE x86_64? Where do I go? These are technical people, they need access to all the arches. - What if (quite likely) all of the desktop environment logos clash with each other and they don't all look professional? - What is the sidebar going to have in it? The documentation we have in the sidebar in the mockups is going to be useless because it is GNOME-only. - What if I want the Electronics spin? What if I want the Art studio spin? There's no mention of the possibility of these here. - Fedora is not a menagerie of desktop environments. This makes it seem as if it is. Gotta collect them all. Here is pikachu, here is.. uh, toad-guy, here is giraffe guy... - If you're catering to people who know what they're doing, you better offer a bittorrent link per spin. And an md5 sum. And a link to the gpg keys to verify the packages. You've basically turned the design inside out. The designs I did make it very easy and welcoming for newbies (where newbies != grandma), and they require just one additional click from people who are already in the community and feel welcome. This design basically makes it clear that new people are not very welcome - it provides a lot of choices right away, and tells the newbies to go elsewhere, forcing them through 3 clicks and 3 page loads just to get Fedora. They haven't bought in yet. Current community members have. I'm also curious how this design would interact with the big 'download' button on the front page that has been proposed. ~m _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
