Re: Promo booklet status?

Hi,

2010/11/25 Agata Marszalek <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> Me and Jenny (KDE e.V. interns) have read the KDE promo booklet (shared
> Google doc) and came to conclusion, that this version of booklet is pretty
> nice and reader-friendly :) We like that it is written in pleasant style,
> presents and describes KDE software comprehensibly for people new to KDE. In
> order to contribute to the booklet, we would like to give a feedback - what
> can be done better or what makes it easier for 'KDE consumers' to understand
> and learn more about KDE :)
>

Ok great ! Thanks for your contributions.

What to correct or change in the KDE promo booklet?
>
> 1.Layout:
>
> - text in boxes should match or be related to the content nearby (on the
> same page); for example on page 4 there is an info about Choqok, and 'Tips &
> Tricks' concerning Choqok (from page 5) should be on the same page 4.
> Another example: Blogilo is presented on the page 5, and 'Tips & Tricks'
> about Blogilo are two pages hereafter. It is confusing and not convenient to
> come back to the topic after you started reading about something else (other
> applications).


That's ok. We will see with Felix what can be done to improve that.


> - captions for all pictures - we want to know what the pictures present,
> because sometimes it is not clear. Caption helps draw attention to something
> in the picture that is not obvious & also helps identify the subject of the
> picture.
>

Good point. We will try to add captions without making the page to much
crowded. I think there will be some work to do on the screenshots to make
them more appealing.


> 2.Content:
>
> - for the 'Tips & Tricks' on page 7, we would like to know the significance
> of being able to preview a blog entry in Blogilo before publishing it. Such
> feature can be found in many blogs, perhaps we should include special
> feature of Blogilo which cannot be found in other blogs instead?
>

Yes, I recently read a good blog post about Blogilo. I will change the
content to focus on special features.

- on page 8 and 10 headings: 'Discover' and 'Have fun' should divide the
> content 'Learn & Play".
>

That's something we have seen and Felix has made the change but it was not
yet visible on the booklet you were reading.

- about page 9 (Marble): keep the information about Marble on one page.
>

That would be better but making the layout is not that simple and I don't
know of it will be possible to guarantee all these kinds of constraints...
By the way, when you look at the booklet with facing pages, the "tips and
tricks" part is close to the rest of the Marble text.


> - shorten information concerning widgets, description about configuration
> is too detailed... can we also change an example picture of widget in the
> booklet? This one (frame with tree picture) doesn't really appeal to me and
> I don't know what kind of widget it actually is. Maybe we could use 'Weather
> Forecast' or 'Calendar' or 'microblogging' widget screen shot as an example?
>

I agree it could be more appealing. That's the kind of thing I would like to
change as I said above.
About information concerning widgets, which one do you find boring,
 "Customize with widgets" or "Widgets Tips" ? (maybe both ?)


> - as a newbie to KDE software, I would like to know more about The Plasma
> Workspaces 'Activities' - it is really interesting, that you can have a
> completely different Activity setup for computer at home or at work, but how
> does it work exactly? Should I login/logout to different workspace? Explain
> me, please!
>

It's something difficult to explain in a concise way... :-)
There were several blog posts explaining it (few recents posts might be
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/10/activities-as-homonyms.html,
http://maketecheasier.com/use-kde-plasma-activities/2010/09/01,
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/16/kde-desktop-activities-explained/). Maybe
this part must indeed be rewritten but I don't want to make it too much
longer.


> - the text after 'Join the game' about KDE Teams - we could give a heading
> like 'KDE TEAMS' and also to use the same (more organized) format of
> subheadings like: 'The BugSquad Team', 'The Localization and Documentation
> Team', 'The Marketing and Promo Team', etc.
>

Yes maybe making them part of a chapter with a heading "Some KDE
teams" could work (I think these are not all the KDE teams you could find).
I let Felix choose what's the best for its layout. Indeed if we let them
this way (which means put them in several boxes) it might lead to something
weird...


> 3. Punctuation, some typos, abbreviations - we will fix them in GoogleDoc
> KDE booklet directly in the doc. But there are some more errors:
>
> - all applications and games, like: Kopete, Blogilo, KTorrent, Solitaire,
> Krita, etc. should be highlighted in the text (use of bold font).
>
> - inconsistent way of presenting links - sometimes it starts from 'http://.....',
> sometimes url without it.
>

You had a really precise look on the booklet ! That's cool ;-)
I appreciate that level of detail.


> 4. Other questions:
>
> - what will be the size of brochure? A4 or A5?
>

A5

Cheers,
>
> Agata&Jenny


Thanks again. It motivated me again to give it another look to improve the
content.

The first draft of the complete layout should come in a few weeks, it would
be great if you can give it a quick look and provide some more feedback at
that time.

Cheers,
Damien

 
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