On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:50, Azerion wrote:
While not be able to see the sheets in action, I have found them on the bootdisk. And as soon I saw the content of the folder I thought: What? So few sheets?
And there's too much boring text in a fluvial manner! Like the gates of the word lake have yielded and words are overflowing. If you put up 10 lines of text of "you can do a, and b, and c, and d, and e, and..." people will not remember more than a and b, so the rest is wasted. I suggest to have more slides, but with less text each. Use bullets. One idea/program per slide. (don't say "you can use gimp or kooka to edit photos" in the same slide). Instead use a header "Photo editing" that remains unchanged and describe gimp and kooka in two consecutive slides. Pictures, screenshots of the program. Some SVG animations would be uber cool. Also sound (that can be turned off by the user). I know that sound card detection and configuration is at the end of installation, but maybe there can be some separate auto-configuration, like the LiveDVD does it, especially to have sound during installation. How cool would it be to hear some music and explanations of the stuff shown on screen? You could even use a voice synthetiser, to keep the space requirements low. The "Next Slide" button is a great idea. Now that would be some _marketing_, not the boring text overflow.