The simple view's help link is the "?" button (which maybe should be changed to "help").
Until now, this has been linked to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Simple_view, which is unlikely to be of help to anyone. I changed it to point to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Help, which is my attempt at the "really simple page" you request. Feel free to edit this (as long as you keep it really simple!). The previous contents of that page - including outdated stuff and mumbo-jumbo about Registry editing and MSI cleanup utilities - has been moved here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Advanced_FAQ -- David On 29-Jul-2010 3:35 PM, Maureen Vilar wrote: > I like Jorden's suggestion to 'keep it simple'. > There was recently a lady on the Facebook website for Progress thru > Processors who said: 'I could not make this application work and would > like to get out of it completely.' When asked to explain what the > problem had been she said she had no idea what to do and couldn't find a > Help link. > There are Help links in the Advanced view. They send one to: > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Help > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Advanced_view > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ > They're all fine and extremely useful but the first two links are > probably too complex and advanced for people like the Facebook lady. The > third probably wouldn't help her. There's no link to a really simple > page explaining that the way to get help from a person is to post on a > project forum or the PtP forum or the boinc_dev forum or the Facebook > PtP Discussion section. With information about how to find these forums. > In the Simple view of 6.10.58 there's no Help link at all. Clicking on > the square logos for one's projects gives a link to each project's > website, but only in a few cases is there a link directly to a > project's forum. The same can be said about the project buttons in the > Commands panel of the Advanced view. > 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.) > It might also help if, just as more than one Command button is provided > by default for the big projects that adopted Boinc early, like Einstein, > Seti and CPDN, a forum link button could be also provided by default for > every project. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
