It might be useful to have a link to get help from a BOINC volunteer. Yes,
it is often a slow process, but it does usually work.
jm7
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07/29/2010 09:10 Re: [boinc_dev] Why not keep it
PM simple?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Maureen Vilar <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the Simple view of 6.10.58 there's no Help link at all.
What do you think the question mark, next to the "add project" button
is for? Hover your mouse over it. ;-)
> I think the Simple view should carry a link to a really easy Boinc wiki
help
> page which could also be added to the Advanced view help links. (The
Boinc
> FAQs would serve this purpose admirably but I imagine that such a link is
a
> no-no because it isn't official Boinc documentation.)
No, please not the BOINC FAQs. It gets difficult enough to update
those all alone and while it is as difficult for anyone to get an
account on them as it is for the BOINC Wiki (which due to spammers now
also requires an account creation), it's still difficult to keep up
with any changes between clients to give people good enough help.
In my opinion, the help buttons should just go to a local help
file/directory, one that comes with the client, one that sits in the
client's directory, one that's updated (with pictures) to THAT
client's version. That way you also give help about what the thing
does when someone wants to check it out off line, or on a local
network.
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-- Jord.
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