[maemo-developers] maemo extras downloads keeps resetting description for liqtorch and liqflow

[From: Niels Breet]

On Fri, December 18, 2009 15:46, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Niels Breet wrote:
>
>> On Fri, December 18, 2009 14:30, Cornelius Hald wrote:
>>
>>> Would it then be possible to remove those field from the site where
>>> you can manually edit this information? Because I think there the real
>>>  confusion comes from.
>>>
>> To quote myself:
>> "The description field needs to be hidden for Maemo5, but not for the
>> other operating system versions. That should clear up the confusion."
>>
>> You seem to have missed that line ;)
>>
>
> Actually, speaking for myself, I just didn't understand.
>
>
> You mean that the description field on the product page should be hidden
> from the user completely? Or from the maintainer who edits the page?
>
> For example, on http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/omweather/ the
> user still needs to see "Weather Forecast on Nokia N900. Ultra-customisable
> weather widget for showing forecast the way you want."
>
> Do you mean that the Description field on the page
> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/edit/37ee3e5ca78011debca0d72dcd1bdfb1df
> b1/ needs to be hidden? Or made read-only?
>

Read-only or hidden in Edit indeed. So at least we don't give people the
illusion that editing that value will change anything.

Hiding the value on the product page wouldn't make any sense of course :)
How else would a user get an idea of what the app is about.

But yeah, I should have used a few more words to explain.

>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster