Steve Cossette wrote:
> Sorry, that's pretty much how things are right now, is that what you were
> trying to demonstrate?
>
> I'm not really following.
Not really. The current design is better than those old designs that
immediately served you an ISO when you clicked "Download now", but the focus
is still on the Editions (which are framed and have logos) at the expense of
the Spins and the other options (which have neither frames nor logos).
Clicking on Workstation then gives you a selection of architectures, but not
of desktop environments; for those, you have to find and pick the (much less
prominent) Spins option on the front page instead.
I think the first thing to offer users should be the Spins (including the
"Workstation Edition" which is technically no different from a Spin). Most
users are looking for a desktop distribution. The non-desktop options should
come last, after all the desktop-ish (desktop, mobile, lab, and atomic)
options.
Fedora 21 has introduced the Editions vs. Spins distinction, Fedora 2*21=42
would be a good time to retire it.
And selecting a desktop/workstation download should require you to select
the desktop environment, with a skip option clearly labeled something like
"I do not want to choose" or "Options confuse me" (or "I HATE OPTIONS!" as I
had called it somewhat hyperbolically), which happens to be a pretty good
description of the GNOME design philosophy. Or maybe even just:
(·) GNOME (default)
A desktop environment focused on ease of use
**Pick this option if questions like this one confuse you.**
( ) KDE Plasma Desktop
A highly customizable desktop environment
( ) Xfce
A lightweight desktop environment
etc.
But there should be no link directly to any GNOME Edition/Spin/whatever
(except Labs, if that specific Lab exists only as a GNOME-based version)
without a clearly visible selection of desktop environments (which is
unfortunately what the current "Workstation" link is). (And for Labs, the
selection should at least visibly state somewhere what desktop environment
they are based on, an information which some Labs now put in their
description, requiring an extra click to see it, and some not even there.)
Kevin Kofler
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