On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:27 AM, 1.61803 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:45:40 PM UTC+2, Rob McBroom wrote: >> The blog is usually pretty good about fleshing out some of the changes, >> though unless you want to manually check it, RSS is probably the best way to >> follow that. There’s also an RSS feed for plug-in changes, but that should >> be less of an issue after the next release. > > Yeah for the moment maybe I can restore RSS with if this then that. > >> You will never know everything it can do. None of us will. > > I was thinking more of converting QS's excellent but outdated user guide into > a wiki integrated in qsapp.com so that it could be updated with the latest > improvements, and dynamically (per keywords in subject) link each topic with > related posts in this forum and issues at github. And that wiki could send > updates via RSS or mail. It'd be nice to also hear Howard Melman's opinion.
A wiki is often discussed and originally there was one. It fell out of date and was one of the reasons I wrote the manual. I also used a creative commons license for the manual so it could be repurposed. QS has a lot of inter-related parts and is very hard to describe in a linear manner so linking is really nice. However IMHO the tools typically found in a wiki make it hard to keep up-to-date. Something like Find & Replace that you'll find in a word processor like Pages is remarkably useful. One of the problems I had when first writing the manual was that many features in QS didn't have consistent names so it was hard to write about. Part of the work was agreeing on terminology and getting it incorporated into QS. While there are a few outstanding examples, that's much better now than its ever been. And FYI, at the time I went through all 100+ plugins reading their .plists to find all the features and trying just about every one to see if they worked. I felt like I knew about 95% of QS at a user level. The new plugin help files that have been added are very helpful, but I still go through the .plist files while updating the manual. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
