Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
Does it hurt you if you know what you are doing to click 2 times?
yes. It's not only clicking but browsing through two nearly similar pages. Documentation must be at hand but nobody must never feel forced to do anything. this is _very_ unfriendly and good documentation _must_ be friendly to have any interest at all.
And let me tell you: what you are stating is not true at all. Most users read documentation.
yes. Once. but not anytime they come at the same place.
I am open minded. In fact i think you are not. You want to reduce the usefulness of the download page to most of the people and concentrate on users who know what choices they have to take to spare them 2 clicks...
well if such statement should be a rule here, I think most of us would resign very fast. I think we all work for the good of the users. you, me, Houghi, anybody here. may be you are working for SUSE for 4 years, But I teached for 40 years now and I know how people learn. or I don't know and only thing I do :-). This have little importance. here some basis I think _are_ very important (trying to be positive :-): * people want to have documentation at hand. Do they read or not is of little importance, they want it. * people don't want to be forced to do anything. most people don't read documentation before installing a distribution. ** they read doc to know if they are to use this distro. Is it good for me? ** they read doc _after_ having begun to work with the distribution ** they read the doc to fix some working problem * reading doc is a punishment, not a gift. So you must have to do this the least you can, and only the part you need, and only once. * trying first, looking at the doc after _is a good thing_. * The very newby is rare, nowaday. Nearly anybody have at least seen a keyboard, used a cd reader, so there must be a separate part for this kind of user. I don't really beleive that any web site can adresse this (be able to read a wiki is not for very newbie) * so the web site clients (as opposite to boxed manual ones) have at least a varnish of computer use. we can expect them to know: - what kind of processor uses they computer (mac, solaris, PC) I'm unsure how we can adresse the 32 bits/ 64 bits problem. I had to do for windows and had to abandon it :-( so may be the first question at all should be this one: what kind of computer do you use. - do they have a dvd reader or not. I know many people that don't know. cd and dvd are alike. A friend of mine (he uses a computer a work all the day) tried for days to make a video dvd read by his computer and failed. He not even understand what I said when I asked him if his reader was cd or dvd. so a small clue is important (my dvd readers are labelled on front "DVD", is this true for all of them?) more later :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org