[kdewebdev-site] Proposed Quanta public site structure

[jacob coby]

--- Eric Laffoon <sequitur at easystreet.com> wrote:

> I'm for a FAQ. The paradox we have seen is that no
> matter where you put 
> something, as one of my mentors loved to say, people
> don't read. 

People most definitly do not read.  It's human nature
to ignore the things that don't pertain to what we're
trying to do.  I think it has something to do with how
much information is available now, and that to get
anything done, something has to be ignored.

> We put info 
> about KIO in the FAQ in the doc pages with Quanta,
> in the help section and 
> even on the feature request page saying not to
> request FTP features because 
> we have them. I mean can you believe that people
> have actually written me to 
> say Quanta looks good but they can't believe we
> don't have file upload 
> capabilities.

Yeah, I can.  If you come from a Windows background,
there is usually a tool to "publish my website" or
"Save via FTP" or "sync my website" or something
similar.  Most people don't read the docs since
they're generally very sparse, poorly written, out of
date, or a combination thereof.

KDE's way of doing things isn't immediatly obvious to
those who have never been shown that you can type in a
url into an open/save dialog.  There is nothing in the
KDE docs about it, and there is nothing easily found
for google about it.  KDE might have it as one of
those "Did you know?.." dialogs that nobody reads.

I came from a Windows background, and was really
dissappointed when I couldn't figure out how to save a
file over FTP.  I tried creating a shortcut to the ftp
site on my desktop, and saving to that.  I tried
creating a FTP project.  I grepped the Quanta source,
and saw something about a FTP dialog that I could
never find.  Nothing worked.

It wasn't until a few months ago when I decided to
give linux a go again that I saw the blurb on the
feature request page about just typing in "ftp://"
into the open dialog.  *d'oh*

> "Oh, sorry, how could we have not
> noticed we were unable to 
> upload our web sites? Thank you so much we'll
> implement that feature right 
> after we get the stitches out from our lobotomies."
> Right!

They're just being naive, and the lack of *any*
indication that you can save over
ftp/sftp/dav/whatever else KDE supports doesn't help
at all.  You'd probably gain new users and many thanks
by creating some sort of "Save To.." dialog that lets
you choose the destination location in some friendly
way.  Or a "Publish my website" dialog.  Just
something _dumb_and_obvious_.
 
> Or we could release a packaged CD and call it Quanta
> Platinum... just for 
> those who are convinced the have to shell out for
> the very best. ;-)

And then release a new version called Quanta Platinum
eXtreme Plus 6700 DDR Mega!

(I'm not a fan of weird product names.)

=====
-Jacob

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