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Hi Christian et al: Thanks for this.

Le 2012-02-19 10:33, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
Hi *,

despite some details not being perfect, the simplified download page
is now activated on www.libreoffice.org

activated = now new-style is in menu, old one was removed from menu,
frontpage links to newstyle-downlaod

However pages below old download have not been moved yet (or better:
URL-segment has not been exchanged, so new-style is still download35
instead of download) so that when you visit the release notes you
won't get the "Download" in the first navigation highlighted.

ciao
Christian


Here is what I do like:

* "Release notes" are now in prominence and users will read it, HOWEVER, the "release notes page" is difficult to read -- it should be broken up by OS, people are really not interested in reading about other systems. They go there to read up on their OS requirements/setups.

* "X.X.X Features" are now in prominence and users will now actually look at these! Thanks.

* Finally! our license is more at the forefront and even if users will only skim or not even go to the page, we will train our downloaders to recognize the acronym "LPGL" which is good marketing. Let's not forget that this is one of the largest reason we quote people for adopting our software.

* buttons -- I like the simplicity. HOWEVER people may get confused over the "torrent" designation on the buttons and may wrongly assume that they are to download in "torrent", which, for the vast majority of users is still unknown territory. Do we really need torrent download? Can our servers serve our user base without torrents? We are as large as the Mozilla project -- do they use torrents? Do we not have enough server capacity?

What I think is missing:

* java! This keeps coming up all the time with user complaints. The dreaded "Java is missing" message. This should be addressed on the page, especially seeing as the majority of our downloaders are Windows users. *NOTE that I particularly like the way this is treated on the http://fr.libreoffice.org/telecharger/#script_telechargement page. This gives the user clear information on Java. I would also place the Java warning note right under the buttons as this takes precedence over the SDK and Source code notes.

* I also download 3 (EN,FR,ES) interfaces and the steps to do so are quite lengthy. This needs to be streamlined more.

* "Handy ressources" should have one more entry saying either "Last stable version" or something like that, and, route people to the 3.4.x features page. This page should then have a sentence saying something like "Recommended for those needing a fully stable product." or something such as this. This may be of importance for institutional installations where a stable product is important and often necessary for implementation. People needing this last version could then find their way back to the downloads page OR we could hang a download button on the 3.4 page to ease them back to a simplified 3.4.x download page (preferred).

Overall, I think this is an improvement. Offering people the choice of one product is great. Now if we could just get the updates on the fly rather than whole re-installation bit. ... :-)

Cheers

Marc


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