Re: Website organization Re: Notes from GNUstep quarterly meet up...

[Xavier Brochard]

Le 15.08.2021 17:39, Patryk Laurent a écrit :
> > A user maybe is only interested in the experience and in getting help.

Regarding users, there is something totally missing for this public on 
the website : there is no single point entry for applications and 
appearance (howto, themes, icons and related tools). It is more easy to 
discover something than to find it again.

For example, let's find available applications from the home page:

- First there is the GNUstep Application Project with a link pointing to 
a readable list of apps.
- A bit below this link there is two links pointing to more complete 
lists of softwares (Wiki application pages and Software Index), but 
these lists are more difficult to read, and Software Index contains also 
libraries.
- Between these two parts there is the link to the Experience page with 
same Wiki application pages and Software Index, and another lisst, the 
Official GNUstep Applications.

It is confusing. While developers or sysadmins can find their way, users 
expect something easier. As a user all I need are simple answers to some 
questions:

1. if I install it, what does it looks ? (the look)
2. what is possible ? (the useful)
3. how can I do this or this ? (the help)

Answer to the first one is easy : screenshots and a bit of text.
The second one can be answered with screenshots and a short list of 
applications sorted by theme.
The third is where you put the complete list of available software, the 
list of customizing tools, themes and icons and users related howtos.

I think that it is easy to clearly distinguish between users and devs.

1) in GNUstep Overview, just remove the end: "which other projects can 
complete." as it can be told later and it is a bit confusing.
2) Add entry points for Users and Developers. Developers will contain 
both Experience (instead of User Experience) and Develop!. Users will 
contain something graphical (the look), a very short list of good apps 
(might be GNUMail, Cenon, PikoPixel, Cynthuiune, Gworkspace, Gorm, …), 
this list could be a carrousel (to combine the look with the useful). 
Then provide a link to a User page on the wiki where we can provide 
application list, tools, themes, help, other projects, etc.


I can work on this.
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