David Kletzli wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007 11:46, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
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The problem with Cine and a bunch of other stuff around X is that there
just isn't the kind of simple and dirty help that us basic users need.
The button or menu option-to-wiki does this. it can also open that;
these are the default settings for this feature; this is what happens if
you mess with those settings. Mousing over would simply show the name
of the whatever (this pretty much exist) but you'd have an option to go
right from there to a popup connection to the wiki.
Currently man wikis do exist, but the interface is not humane, you need
to jump to and fro, sometimes go hunting in the night to figure the
connection between a particular feature on the program and its
decription in the manual.
Hey, this would be such a breakthrough in human interface for so much
prosumer soft! I should patent it. just kidding. :-)
Yama
A couple more things to think about with this...
How do you handle the case where someone is trying to get help, and is not
on-line? If you make *everything* online, then you are going to be brutal to
those who may not be able to have access to an on-line connection.
Preaching to the choir, brother. I hail from La Paz, Bolivia, home to
the 2-mile high soccer kick and to pretty sucky connections and worst IP
providers ever (I'm circumstantially in Austin, TX, right now, and
heresy, writing from a windows machine).
The answer I have is that, such as everything else in opensourcedom,
someone owns this part of the project and cleans the incoming stuff and
implements a stable version that gets built in.
Thus, you mouse over - then, you have the option to go wiki, which has a
"stable" part and a come-as-you-may comment area. This gets stabilized
from time to time, etc. Now, the stable part is built into the standard
/help/ side of the software, thus part of the distro and independent of
wires, so if you are not connected that is what you get when asking for
details.
I seem to have seen something similar somewhere, mouseover gives you the
title, if you hover a couple seconds you get a paragraph.
Hope this helps. Thanks for responding
Also, and I don't know how much of a problem this would be, wikis can be a
moving target. Nothing that can't be handled, I think, but you'd have to
make sure you put some thought into both sides of the connection.
Standard trusting the good side of, etc. Community policing of new
submissions/changes, basic members only, through them registering an
email, you know the drill.
Dave
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