Results of the App Installer Meeting

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Thu Jan 27 07:20:36 PST 2011


Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 16:17:05, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On 27 January 2011 15:07, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Right - this is almost too long.
> > I'd think keeping it more like a paragraph will keep from the tl;dr
> > problem.
> 
> Both the android and apple app stores have way more than a paragraph
> for a typical application.
> 
> The point is, that if the user is looking at the detailed application
> view for a single package, they probably haven't made up their mind if
> they want to install it -- and need all the details we can give them.
> Bullet points of features, screenshots, links to online scoreboards,
> and all that kind of thing.
> 
> Richard.
> 

We could just say "try to keep a reasonable size, not more than a page of 
text", and then it will depend on the application and who contributes the 
description (which we still don't know :))

Samuel



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