On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 20:23 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Nedko Arnaudov <[email protected]> wrote: > > IMHO, the two basic questions that user will have are: > > > > 1. Will the plugin X that I use a lot work on host Y that I want to try? > > 2. Will the host W that I use a lot work well with the plugin Z I've found? > > Hm, I think you may have the wrong tense. I think the one basic > question that users will have is: Why doesn't this plugin work?
This is a problem that hosts (can, and) should express to the user in clear terms. They shouldn't have to go digging around on the internet to figure this out (this is a large part of the reason I maintain these "problems" are severely exaggerated around here). > In other words, how can we convey the answers to questions like these > to users who haven't actually bothered to read any documentation > beforehand? (i.e. all users) The number one rule of offline documentation is that nobody reads offline documentation :) -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
