From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30455 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2004 19:52:02 -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 30440 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2004 19:51:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) (216.148.227.85) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2004 19:51:58 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-176-41-158.client.comcast.net[67.176.41.158]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004112719515701400rktvve>; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:51:57 +0000 Message-ID: <41A8DAD7.9060105@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:33:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Bringedal CC: xconq-general@lists.sourceforge.net, xconq7 Subject: Re: [Xconq-general] Re: New Xconq Prerelease References: <41A7CB51.2060200@phy.cmich.edu> <000601c4d4a4$862ae660$b1f94382@Rufus> In-Reply-To: <000601c4d4a4$862ae660$b1f94382@Rufus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01443.txt.bz2 Andreas Bringedal wrote: > Currently downloading on my 56k modem... Ouch. It's only 7.5 MB, though.... >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? 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