On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 18:41 -0800, Ian Caldwell wrote:
Firstly; I love the design, very nice.
I wanted to make a comment about the text shown in the mockup there. This part:
"which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux"
Quite besides putting your fellow FOSS project last in a list of supported operating systems, especially since many distros package and release Inkscape ready to install and windows and macosx don't.
But worse is the confusion of "Linux". Does this sentence mean that Inkscape will work on Android? Will it work on my TiVo or my Home brew Wii? It is nonsense to claim to run on Linux when linux is a kernel which can't run Inkscape in most cases.
It would be more clear and honest to say "which runs on Gnome/Linux" or "FreeDesktop Linux" or just "Fedora, Debian and other awesome Free Desktops".
And if you're of the opinion that Android and such aren't marketed as Linux and there for won't be confusing. Think about the way Ubuntu isn't marketed as Linux either (because it isn't true and because it's not helpful to scare away new users), will we have "which runs on Linux and Ubuntu" to account for that?
The lack of consideration that Linux distros are given by the Inkscape website is currently frustrating. The install for Windows and Mac is easy, but we don't have a single deb, apt link, or ppa and instead ask users to compile. Please consider rectifying and please start with the text on the front page.
Best regards, Martin Owens