Hi, On Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 17:09:22, jdd wrote:
here some basis I think _are_ very important (trying to be positive :-):
All the things you say are true but have nothing to do with the task at hand. Guiding users trough the process of downloading openSUSE.
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?)
WTH are you talking about? Its not like we have a personal assistent built into the wiki for everyone who wants to download stuff. You cant ask questions because there is no way of answering for the user (except a click¹). You have to express the options the user has on a static web-page and the options have to be explained. Now tell me which option should we leave out? o Stable or Development o Installation type o Arch o Download type Each of these options is vital for the decision what, where and how to download. Henne ¹ Before you go there... please dont start the try to mimic interactive decision making in static wiki pages. It sucks! -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki-help@opensuse.org