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.

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.

Dave

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