From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2750 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2004 23:33:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2711 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2004 23:33:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail49.e.nsc.no) (193.213.115.49) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2004 23:33:25 -0000 Received: from Rufus (ti311110a001-0099.dialup.online.no [130.67.249.99]) by mail49.nsc.no (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id iARNWVqf002305; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:32:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <003d01c4d4d9$6117adb0$63f94382@Rufus> From: "Andreas Bringedal" To: , "xconq7" References: <41A7CB51.2060200@phy.cmich.edu> <000601c4d4a4$862ae660$b1f94382@Rufus> <41A8DAD7.9060105@phy.cmich.edu> Subject: Re: [Xconq-general] Re: New Xconq Prerelease Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:58:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01444.txt.bz2 >>One thing though. For us computer illiterate people(of which there are >> more of than one might think) it's rather confusing to have a zillion download options. >> Would it be easily doably to highlight the >> playable download file among all the others uninteresting files(uninteresting for the pure player) in red or green? > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124062&package_id=135573&release_id=285719 > > Is that better? Umm, not really. Perhaps I should illustrate what I read when I see that page for the first time. It looks something like this: Xconq7.5gobblegobblegobble Xconq7.5gobblegobblegobble size gobble gobble gobblewinexe Xconq7.5gobblegobblegobble size gobble gobble gobblewinexe Xconq7.5gobblegobblegobble size gobble gobble gobblewinexe > BTW, almost everything listed there is "playable". Some of it is > "playable" on Linux, and some of it must be compiled before it is > "playable". Windows isn't the only platform in the universe. > >>Sure, even I >> managed to find the .exe win 32 bit file > > Yes, I made sure it had "SETUP" in all uppercase letters for the > computer illiterate and other Windows users. ;-) > > FYI, 39 of the 52 downloads in the previous file release were for the > Windows installer, and it did not have "SETUP" in all uppercase letters, > and it was not even the first download on the list. > >>but I had to search through the rest of the non interesting stuff and it would be rather >> player friendly to have the player executable file highlighted. I wouldn't be surprised it there are even greater degrees of >> computer illiterate people than me that couldn't be bothered to figure it out. > > In the future, I'll just quote the URL for the new file release and not > for all the other Xconq-related package sections. > >> Btw, great work. It's fun to lurk around when so much is happening. > > Thanks. It is indeed an exciting time for Xconq development. > > Eric > > >