[Gimp-web] Menu proposal.

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:47:32 +0200, Niklas Mattisson <scizzo@gimp.org> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I am sorry I did forget a few things on the menu proposal:
> 
> - News
> - About GIMP
> - Screenshots
> - Downloads
> - Tutorials
> - Documentation
> - GIMP Books
> - Mailing Lists
> - Bugzilla
> - Getting Involved
> - Links
> 
> - GIMP from Source
> - GIMP for Unix
> - GIMP for Windows
> - GIMP for MacOSX
> - GIMP for OS/2
> 
> - Contests
> 
> This should do the trick. 

Yes.  But of course, I would like to change two small things:
- Use "Bugs" instead of "Bugzilla".
- Swap "Tutorials" and "Documentation" to have "Documentation" on top.  It
  would be even better to remove "Tutorials" from the menu, but see below.

> I don't see the big point of moving the tutorials to the Documentation
> because it actually has nothing at all to do with documentation.

Well, both of them explain how to use the GIMP.  The Documentation
section is organized as a reference, while the Tutorials section is
organized by themes (goal-oriented).  So the tutorials are simply a
different way to document how to use the GIMP, and there is nothing
wrong in having the tutorials inside the Documentation section.

> [...] But
> having the Documentation section and then add the tutorials there does
> not make it userfriendly it turns the whole meaning of userfriendly down
> IMHO.

I don't think so.  The old www.gimp.org site has the tutorials inside
the documentation section and nobody complained about that.  On the
contrary, I think that it makes the navigation easier by reducing the
number of options in the menu.

In fact, most of the software sites that I looked at have their
Tutorials or HOWTOs inside a Documentation section.  That section
usually contains a FAQ, a Manual, some Tutorials and links to Books
(in any order).  For example:
  GNOME (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/),
  KDE (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/), 
  Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/),
  GPG (http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/),
  Python (http://www.python.org/doc/),
  CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/), ...

Anyway, let's not argue forever about this: if you prefer to keep the
tutorials in the menu, then feel free to do it.  If we get some
feedback later saying that there are too many options in the menu
(that would be my opinion), then we can remove the link from the menu.

-Raphaël