On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:44:48AM +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:19 +0400, ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote: > > Shameful^H^H^Hless plug: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/simple-launcher/ > > Making a normal user search I could find only > http://downloads.maemo.org/product/idea - but maybe it's just me. :) > > Users would have an easier life if developers could spend some time > creating a nice and useful page at http://downloads.maemo.org , with > screenshot, link to project page, etc. People downloading deb packages > directly from Garage pages has been a general use case until now, but > the shift has moved to the application catalog and this s just the > beginning. > > fyi Tableteer and other Nokia sites will increasingly promote software > available in maemo.org. A useful page in the application catalog with a > working install file will be a requirement. Votes, comments and ranks > (to come soon) will play also a role when recommending applications A or > B. Thank you for your kind suggestion. Hopefully now it's gonna be a bit easier to fin it at downlaods.maemo.org. I still need to work on a .install file though. > Of course novelty, quality and coolness of the software itself is and > will be the primary factor. From a Nokia point of view it doesn't make > much sense to redirect regular users to places and actions they won't > understand (i.e. > https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=239&release_id=643 ) I probably need to check better Nokia's point of view... :) -- Misha -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070907/ff46e16a/attachment.pgp
