[Gimp-web] Menu proposal.

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:44:26 +0200, Niklas Mattisson <scizzo@gimp.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I need to tell you my thoughts now after thinking a while.
> 
> - I wont move the Tutorials to the Documentation section and I stand my
> ground to not move that section.

Fair enough.  As I said in a previous message, I trust your decisions.

> (The menu might be big yes...but it is
> more straight forward). In that case it is better if we have:
> 
> News
> About GIMP
> Screenshots
> Resources
> Downloads
> Documentation
> GIMP Books
> Tutorials
> Mailing Lists
> Bugs
> Getting Involved
> GIMP Links
> 
> GIMP from Source
> GIMP for Unix
> GIMP for Windows
> GIMP for MacOSX
> GIMP for OS/2
> 
> Contest
> 
> Do everyone agree to have the menu like this?

You get my vote for this structure.  As Branko mentioned in another
message, it would be better to write "Books" and "Links" instead of
"GIMP Books" and "GIMP Links".  But the structure is fine.

The paths (URLs) can also stay as they are now.  The only new thing
would be the "/source/" section.

> Or do you find the menu to big as it is mentioned above?

It is a bit too big, but I can live with that.  ;-)  As I wrote in a
previous message, a good human interface guideline would be to have no
more than 6 items in each section of the menu.  But this seems to be
difficult to do for the moment, so let's leave the menu as it is in
your last proposal and let's hope that most users will be happy with
it.

> Could someone provide me with information about GIMP on various Unix
> systems like: Solaris, IRIX etc ?
> 
> Anyone that has a good knowledge of Unix and GIMP? Installation etc?

I am using the GIMP almost every day on Solaris.  Unfortunately, I build
my own binaries from CVS or from the released tarballs, so I cannot
provide much information about how to download binaries.  I think that
some versions are available from www.sunfreeware.com, but the most recent
version that I could find there is 1.2.1.  Not very up-to-date...

I expect that the majority of the visitors will be looking for the Linux
version first, so we could launch the site as it is now and then improve
the documentation for other UNIX systems later.

-Raphaël