[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 13:30 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
> >> <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
> >> > Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading.
> >> >
> >> > Fair copy attached.
> >> >
> >> > I originally included the section "Multimedia", as it is the set of
> >> > Activities in http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
> >> > but not in the Walter/Sam contribution.
> >> >
> >> > I think it is the weakest section. Chat jars a bit on the page, as
> >> > "Chat" is used in the "Spins page template" to refer to IRC.
> >> >
> >> > My memory is that Jukebox is not part of the core set (due to non-free
> >> > components?).
> >>
> >> You're memory is wrong! It uses gstreamer and there a number of free
> >> codecs that come as standard.
Thanks, Peter, for the correction.

So as a heading, ==Multimedia== containing Jukebox, Record, Imageviewer
you feel should remain?


> Maybe you could download SoaS 22 and
> >> actually test it and see what's there!
> >>
> >> > Perhaps the section Multimedia as it stands should be deleted.
> >>
> >> Not going to happen. This isn't time for bikeshedding, it's time for
> >> tweaking the content as it stands.
> >
> >
> > Talking about the headers is not bikeshedding.  The headers on the page are
> > not very relevant to an education focused desktop environment - they are
> > headers for a traditional dekstop environment.
> 
> I was talking about "Multimedia as it stands should be deleted" so I
> have no idea why you're talking about the header names. I have stated
> before the header names need to be updated. I'm still awaiting what
> they should be updated to.

... awaiting?

        Understanding and creating content
        Learning by doing
        Getting technical
        Exploring the wider world
        Multimedia
        Reflection on what you've learned

is from earlier contributions and both my attachments to this thread.

Multimedia, perhaps, just jars a little with the other more directive
headings.

Iain

> 
> > The sections are not sensible in the context of Sugar - and the "Education"
> > section is almost like a joke.
> >
> > Logical section headers are just as important as good text.  People looking
> > at websites are often very distracted and need very logical things before
> > they scratch their head and look else where.  I'm being a little assertive -
> > but we should change the headers!
> 
> Please read back through my previous replies.
> 
> > Also some very unimportant stuff:  Portfolio, Journal and Paint all have
> > different color palettes for their icons :(
> 
> They were taken as it directly from the sugar svgs so I suspect
> something is broken there.
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