Hi Johan, all, 
Am Mon, 28 May 2007 09:40:16 +0200 schrieb Johan Henselmans:
> On 5/28/07, Manuel NAUDIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all macport team,
>> as a basic user, I'd suggest to add a line in the installation description
>> to make clear to the end user if he can safely install the aqua 
>> version side
>> by side with a X11 version without corrupting pref files and setups of the
>> X11 version (which is the case I think).

This could be line 21 in Johan's draw. 

> As it is my experience as a user that users do not read anything apart
>> from the first 20 lines which are in sight in their reader, I would
> suggest to order the document in such a way that:

+1 

My first impression when reading Michael's draft was. Nicely done 
but it's too much wording. The end-user needs it short and to the 
point. 

And in addition most of the press out there also won't read any 
longer than 20 lines.  
 
> -in 2 lines everybody knows this version will crash and take your 
> data with you
> -in 8 lines everybody knows that printing does not work, starting from
> a shared folder does not work, etc. Stick to the things that are
> important to users
> -make clear where to report problems
> -then start with the remarks about being the first alpha not ready for
> production use etc
> -the full list of bugs
> 
> My first 20 lines:
> 
> OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger with the AQUA interface
> 
> WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE WILL CRASH AND WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT
> USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK
> 
> This is a alpha test version so that developers and users can find out
> what works and what not, and make comments on how to improve it.
> 
> WHAT DOES NOT WORK IN THIS VERSION:
> -You can not print
> -Starting OpenOffice from a shared folder does not work
> -You can not copy and paste parts of a document
> -OpenOffice will crash after quitting it

That's exactly what I had in mind. Thanks. 
 
> I would also recommend that this version would be in a package
> installer version, just for the sake that you can stick this message
> in the installer.

Hmm. I fear that even if we put it in an installer people will 
overread it. But at least we tried. 

Kind regards,
Eric Hoch


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