Michele Zarri wrote:
Totally agree. Problem is that when people use the guide as a
reference manual (and most do) they just jump to the section you are
interested in, expecting to find all the information they need. For
this reason, it makes sense to me to avoid saying that to change a
gradient you open the Area page/tab :-D if you just said 10 lines
above that this is the page to set the area properties, but I am sure
someone will complain about the quality of the manual if we did so.
The typical users have evolved to the point whereby the GUI component
names could be dispensed with, for the most part. If I were to say
something of my driving a car with a 5-speed tranny, I wouldn't go into
much detail about the gear-shifting procedure (or the specific auto
components involved) but instead I might say to upshift from second to
third. Just about anybody whom I would be talking to would clearly know
and understand fully without my going into needless details.
PCs have been around a long time now and are commodities today and their
use is very intuitive, by design. It's about time to stop going into as
much detail as in the past when describing how to run various functions,
etc. Some developers don't even include instructions anymore--for some
evidence of that.
Gary
