1st Post : Suggestion for a website.

[Pete Travis]

On May 12, 2015 7:51 AM, "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 16:43 +0000, nishant nishchal wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to all this. But I have keen interest in contributing to
> > Open Source.
> >
> > I'm very much interested in helping promote Fedora. I've been using
> > it for the past 4 years.
> >
> > I've got a suggestion for you guys. Do let me know what you think.
> >
> > So, there are websites out there that let the users experience the
> > OS interface. For instance,
> >
> > UBUNTU : http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/#
> >
> > Mac OS X Lion :http://www.alessioatzeni.com/mac-osx-lion-css3/
> >
> > I was thinking if we could do the same for Fedora. Give the users a
> > taste of Gnome 3.4
> >
> > Please consider this idea.
> >
> > Looking forward to your replies.
>
>
> I did think about this, which is how the "fedora-tour" project was
> born. There are a couple of issues that we hit and decided to close
> down the project:
>
> 1. Should we only show off Gnome 3.4? What about other DEs/SIGs?
> 2. Fedora generally sees large changes over releases - the community
> has worked on reducing this delta, but maintaining such a site, along
> with the work load of fp.o already, is quite difficult.
> 3. Who will work on it? I haven't the time any more :(
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
>

This, in essence, is why Docs has largely stopped maintaining content for
doing things with GUIs.  Even minor discrepancies in the appearance of a
screenshot can destroy confidence, and screenshots cannot be translated or
made accessible.

Also, there are a lot of DEs and maintaining even simple things for each DE
on each release is a big burden.

Most distro 'review' sites don't do much more than show screenshots and
list the applications installed on the live image, so IMO this space is
well covered.  Let them have it. (not to discourage anyone that really
wants to do it ;)

--Pete
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