Re: [libreoffice-website] Download-Page rework - please test & provide translations

On 07/09/2013 01:09 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> > http://staging.libreoffice.org/download
> >
> > I have a question.
> > The Portable section, under Packages, links to the
> >
> > http://staging.libreoffice.org/get-involved/donate/dl/portable/4.0.4/12/LibreOfficePortable_4.0.4_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe
> >
> > Yet, there is another Portable package that some people might want to
> > choose, if their needed language is not in the "normal" version.
> >
> > "LibreOfficePortable_4.0.4_MultilingualAll.paf.exe"
> So just pick a version that is not in the multi installer and you'll
> get the "All" link.

The clicking on "Portable" under the "Package" section - bottom left of 
the page - gives you "...Normal.paf.exe".
> > So would you want to show both Portable package options?
> Nah, there I think just showing the matching (chosen or detected)
> language is sufficient.
Are you saying if I was detected to use an African language that is 
supported by LO, that the link would then select "...All.paf.exe" ???

> > Also, right now there is only one 4.0.4 ISO file, the NA-DVD one. But, I
> > would assume that the German one would be available sometime.  So if we have
> > both versions of the DVD for the 4.0.5 installs, would both package links
> > show up here?
> Yes - note that the staging site's download-DB is not up-to-date, so
> it might not show all downloads that are currently available - but to
> satisfy your example: for 3.6.6 there are both en and german isos, so
> try with http://staging.libreoffice.org/download/?version=3.6.6 →
> you'll get both offered.

For 4.0.4, there is currently only the NA-DVD on the CD/DVD download 
page.  I was not even thinking about 3.6.x.  Also 4.1.0 comes out at the 
end of the month, so I will be planning on making a NA-DVD out of those 
installs.  3.6.7 is due out sometime next week.  I have to think about 
making a NA-DVD for it as well. [but I am using 4.0.4 for all my 
system/OSs now].

> > If you show only one of the Portable package options, the logic would be
> > that you would only show one of the available DVD .iso file options as well.
> Well, yes and no. Portable version is just windows version of
> LibreOffice, with a different set of supported languages, whereas the
> LibreOffice DVDs are a compilation of LibreOffice + some additional
> software and documentation. LibreOffice is multi-lang on both isos.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> ciao
> Christian

I have tired the Portable version once a year or two ago, but there may 
have been issues with testing it while I have LO installed on that 
Windows system.  It looks like there is another group that has created a 
different portable system and setup for packages, though I could not get 
that system to run on my Win7 laptops. X-LibreOffice, I think it is called.

The Portable package type of setup is a nice one to have so you can run 
you favorite package on someone else's Windows computer without needing 
to install it on that system.  The last time I tried it, it was much 
slower than the installed version, but is is a good way to demonstrate 
LO to others, if you do not have your laptop [or desktop] handy.  Thumb 
drives are much easier to carry.  I have a few 16 and 32 GB ones I carry 
with me, as needed, for slideshows and other presentations so I do not 
have to have those presentations/documentation on a specific system that 
I must take with me.

The "German" ISO does have other language packs included, but the last 
time I downloaded it, the "text" of the DVD was in German.  The NA-DVD 
uses "generic" English for the "text" of the HTML based DVD, but 
includes 8 different languages [language and help packs if available].  
The NA-DVD does not include the SKD and source code, but has about 2 GB 
of extras, plus the 90+/- install, language pack, and help pack files 
for Windows, MacOSX [Intel and PPC], Linux [DEB and RPM], plus the 2 
portable packages.

BOTH of the DVDs are targeted on different communities, as far as I can 
tell for the "German" one.  Note--I produce the NA-DVD.

I would love to see other DVDs listed on the CD/DVD download page[s].  
Having a different DVD created for each "major" language would be nice 
to see.  Those languages would include;  English, German, French, 
Spanish, Italian, Russia and that region, Middle Eastern region, African 
regain, Asian region, etc., plus Hebrew [which MSO seems to forget 
about, or so I have been told].  It would be hard to make one DVD, with 
the type of extras that the NA-DVD has, with auto detecting language and 
several language versions of the HTML based "text" system.  I would not 
fit on a "normal" 4.7 GB DVD.  I looked into it a few years back and 
could not figure out how to do it, as well as finding the "extras" in 
those languages - i.e. all of the documentation in all of those 
languages. [Well that went off topic a little].





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