Hi Michel
On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:41:28 Michel Roche wrote:
there are a couple of issues I want to raise about the campaign that comments made about the article I wrote on linuxfr.org arose to me.
We are all agreeing that this campaign aims at targetting the average user, informing him/her of the existence of Free/Libre software to read PDF documents that aren't only Free/beer. In this respect, we can assume that those people are mainly using windows with few technological knowledge.
- In the windows column of the pdfreaders.org page, the first offered
software is Okular. It seems that the KDE installer is not a bad thing, but it leads to a complex operation for the user : two softwares to install. OK there's a little note explaining it, but..
We have decided to tone down the Windows version of Okular until the installation process becomes much more intuitive for Windows users. I believe the most agreed upon suggestion so far is to colour "recommended" readers with a green background.
- If we take a look at the simpliest : Sumatra, you arrive in an also
complex page where just under the binary installer commes a zip with the sources => if the user is reassured by the zip which may be less scaring than the exe, he'll be downloading sources !
Hmm.. Maybe we could link directly to the exe instead. Are there reasons why we should not do that?
- And another big concern is that none of the related pages are
translated, so pdfreaders.org may do for english speaking people, but will be a showstopper for all others !
Indeed. I'm also working on a page to explain PDF with regards to Open Standards, which will be the target of the first "Read more..." link on the front page.
all the best, /Stian