Wine download page usability problem

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 11:32:24 CST 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> I got email from a friend who complained how
> hard it was to install wine.  Turns out he
> assumed he had to go to winehq.org and
> follow the download instructions there,
> when all he needed to do was do
> Applications / Add/Remove and pick Wine.
>
> Can we add in a line at the top saying
> "Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
>  just like any other Linux application using your
>  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
>  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

Nitpick, but instead of 'Linux', use 'native'. FreeBSD's ports
contains wine, as well as NetBSD's.

> I think we should also move the text
> "This endorsement is the primary recognition that CodeWeavers has
> requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site."
> to the bottom of the page, and change it to read
> "Thanks to CodeWeavers for hosting WineHQ.org".

+1


-- 
-Austin



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