Hello,
(please answer these thread on the website list).
The title pretty much says it all. What do people think about the
download experience of LibreOffice? How can it be improved? Any
particular idea besides a graphical redesign itself?
Thanks,
Hi Charles, all,
(please answer these thread on the website list).
I hope reply-all is appropriate..?
The title pretty much says it all. What do people think about the
download experience of LibreOffice? How can it be improved?
Thanks for asking the question, there are two main things that irk me about it:
1. There is a "download now" button on the homepage. It lies. It currently is
a go-to-some-other-page-then-click-Download-again button. I'd much rather
like to see a button on the front page that actually starts the download,
and a small link below it, "More download options."
2. On our Downloads page, we use absolutely atrocious buttons: these buttons
look like they only have one click zone, part of them feel like they only
have one click zone (background lights up), yet actually these things have
three click zones (Main Installer, Torrent, & Info).
It is easy to see that this leads to people clicking on the button, only
to see nothing happening, because they clicked outside of one the three
small zones.
So, in conclusion, the whole button should be inside an <a> (i.e., a
hyperlink) element, and Torrent and Info should be placed somewhere otside
the big green button.
As an additional suggestion, there could be a bit more space around the bottom
of the links on the download page. Also, it would be cool if the buttons on the
homepage looked the same as those on the Download page.
Regards,
Astron.
Hello Astron,
Hi Charles, all,
> (please answer these thread on the website list).
>I hope reply-all is appropriate..?
> The title pretty much says it all. What do people think about the
> download experience of LibreOffice? How can it be improved?
>
Thanks for asking the question, there are two main things that irk me
about it:1. There is a "download now" button on the homepage. It lies. It
currently is
a go-to-some-other-page-then-click-Download-again button. I'd much
rather
like to see a button on the front page that actually starts the
download,
and a small link below it, "More download options."2. On our Downloads page, we use absolutely atrocious buttons: these
buttons
look like they only have one click zone, part of them feel like
they only
have one click zone (background lights up), yet actually these
things have
three click zones (Main Installer, Torrent, & Info).
It is easy to see that this leads to people clicking on the
button, only
to see nothing happening, because they clicked outside of one the
three
small zones.
So, in conclusion, the whole button should be inside an <a> (i.e.,
a hyperlink) element, and Torrent and Info should be placed somewhere
otside
the big green button.As an additional suggestion, there could be a bit more space around
the bottom
of the links on the download page. Also, it would be cool if the
buttons on the
homepage looked the same as those on the Download page.Regards,
Astron.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Much appreciated.
best,
Hello Andrew, *,
I'd prefer if the download page detected I'm using a .deb based
distro rather than a .rpm one
that would be great 
It is really disturbing, if you have to click
on the link below to get your preferred packages ... 
Have a nice afternoon
Thomas.
<TOFU removed>
I'd prefer if the download page detected I'm using a .deb based distro
rather than a .rpm one
"Selected: LibreOffice Mac OS X (PPC), version 4.1.3, German
No regular installation files are available.
Please change your selection or pick one from the additional downloads
below.
If you're looking for old versions, please visit our download archive."
My experience from some other mailing lists and requests: why not
saying: " we don't support LibO PPC any more, but you still can use and
downlaod the old version 4.X. Click here for the [archive].
(What did I done? http://www.libreoffice.org/download --> PPC clicked)
Moreover I'm using a Mac and multiple Windows PCs. Well my problem
original was: I have to download a "Translated user interface" package
(very bad solution!) for Mac OS X which looks identical to the
"LibreOffice built-in help" for the Windows builds. Well until I
recognized that I had to download two packages for OS X (and how that
installation works) lasted a few moments... Still my q: Why is there no
built-in help for Mac OS X?
Well, room for improvements: integrate the language pack for OS X! 
Dennis Roczek