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Re: [phoenix-dev] Interesting Quote
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Yes, but we can't just bundle our IDE w/ a JDK and call it a day like Sun does. :) We have a much more diverse contributor community, so we need to represent those projects & the member companies. Or at least that's been the model until now, and with the recent addition of ads, I'm guessing that we're not planning to move in a more "code first, companies & projects second" direction. It's still producers over products at this point, which for Joe "I just want to download an IDE" Average-User, there's (apparently) a lot of overhead.
I notice there's a too-subtle link on the homepage for "New to Eclipse?" [1] -- could that link be enhanced to get its own graphical hero spot?
[1]
http://www.eclipse.org/home/newcomers.php
On the Newcomers FAQ page [1], the details on how to download Eclipse are buried as text links
just barely above the fold. Where are the pretty orange download links? The
per-package icons? Why do we bury important links as text instead of obvious navigational links & graphical buttons? (I'm guilty of this too.)
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Maybe we need some sort of download wizard or "Eclipse Experience
Optimizer" like what Rogers has recently installed [2] for determining
what type of user you are & therefore what level of bandwidth you
require:
[2]
http://www.rogers.com/keepingpace/
"New to Eclipse? Click here to choose the best Eclipse download for your needs."
A simple UI for selecting the various options available through EPP [3] by asking a few questions might be considered easier than what we have now.
[3]
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/compare.php
It would also be great if everything had a consistent look and feel, unlike, say,
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ which is STILL blue, 2 years after the rise of the Phoenix. Yeccch.
$0.02,
Nick
