GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 119210
introduction paints site as tutorial
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
This is about the site under development at http://mmmaybe.gimp.org . First, I would like to say that it is very good that the new web site has a blurb right at the start that explains what the site and the GIMP are about. I disagree, however, with the second sentence: "This site attempts to help you to use The GIMP." This would suggest that www.gimp.org is completely and only devoted to instruction. I feel it should say that "This is the official GIMP web site" instead. If we feel that the instruction part of the site is sufficiently important, that could be mentioned later on in the blurb.
This should be trivial to fix. We only need someone to come up with a better wording for this whole paragraph. When the new site is moved to www.gimp.org, we should replace "Welcome to The New GIMP Web Site." by "Welcome to the official GIMP web site.". The transition will hopefully happen during or soon after GimpCon.
"This is the official GIMP website and will try to help you to get the information needed to get going with The GIMP." Would this maybe be better?
The old blurb is this... --- The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing the GIMP. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We also try to provide as much information about the GIMP community and related projects as possible. --- That seems to be the kind of message you are trying to get across. I do like the casual touch of "grab a beverage" on the new blurb, as well as mentioning that it is available on many platforms, in many languages. So perhaps this blend of the two might work... --- The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. This is the official web site of the GIMP, and contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing it. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We also try to provide as much information about the GIMP community and related projects as possible. Hopefully you will find what you need here. Grab a properly chilled beverage and enjoy. --- What do ye think? Dave.
Dave wrote: What do ye think? Here is what I think: 2003-09-21 Raphael Quinet <quinet@gamers.org> * index.htrw: Changed the text according to the suggestions from Dave Neary in bug #119210, with slight modifications due to the fact that we do not distribute patches and plug-ins directly from here.
Changing all www.gimp.org bugs from gimp product to the gimp-web product, including old closed/fixed bugs, and reassigning.
re-resolving old bugs