On March 21, 2003 06:31 pm, Jeremy Newman wrote:
+ Download/Source: it seems ... incomplete. IMO we should collapse the two Download page into a single page. But where do we stick the menu item? In About? In Support? I suggest About.I'm currently happy with the seperate pages. And I believe Francois was very adamant about having downloads be its own menu item. All the navigation I have so far is based off his suggestions in bugzilla. Although he wanted drop downs which I despise.
Well, the design is great, and I like it, but that does not mean we can not tweak it once we see how it looks. I've ask around, and the Source page does look empty. Why have it? It has one link to ibiblio... It's confusing, as the SF page we point people to from Binaries also contains sources, as it should.
Bottom line is, it's silly to force the content to two pages, just to justify a different menu box. (BTW, I've noticed that you've made the title of the menu boxes unclickable, thank you! I wanted to ask you to do so, you beat me to the punch :) ).
What I suggest is that in the main download page, under the "Official Wine Versions" we list the four sources which appear in the ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ALPHA/wine/development ftp://orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development The "System" column should just say "Source". Personally, I don't know why we need to list all these mirrors. SF provides for mirrors, etc. Alexandre, what about if we list just the ibibilo link?
Or even better, provide a "Source Mirrors" list at the end of the page, so we don't clutter the important stuff with all this.
There are other problems on the main Download page:
-- The big warning must go: By downloading one of the binary packages given below, you acknowledge that the Wine devel team has absolutely no responsibility and authority on these packages. The packagers frequently even fail to follow the Wine Packaging Guide instructions, resulting in highly reduced functionality. In short: if you want to make sure that your Wine config is done as outlined (thus gaining pretty good compatibility), then use the Wine source and read the documentation very carefully.
What's the point in providing these packages in the first place if the first thing we say is this?!? Let's just kill it.
-- The "Dataparty" entry has a "Currently glibc-2.2.2." note which is redundant, as it's stated in the "System" column.
-- The "Daily Debian Wine" entry has installation instructions in the Description column. They uglify the page, I think they belong on Andreas's site.