Hi Steve, You can blatantly put words in "Paul Tran"'s mouth, but please don't put words in Paul Tan's mouth. Just kidding.
Best Regards, Paul Tan -----Original Message----- From: Steve Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gEDA developer mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 4:50 pm Subject: gEDA-dev: Geda Learning curve and documentation The subject of the learning curve and geda comes fairly frequently. To blatently put words in Paul Tran's mouth I believe Paul would argue that the flexible nature of geda's attributes and scheme interface are what make geda flexible and thus powerfull. Well, I was trying to put some documentation together on attributes when while doing a search on google with the key words (geda attrib graphical) when I discover a link to geda:master_attributes_list [gedaWiki] My reaction was wow where has this been hidding. So I try to back trace to how one would find this document in the wiki pages and it isn't obvious. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/ -> http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:documentation -> 1/3 down the page under the heading " Attribute/File Format Details" is Master Attributes List I had looked for something like this earlier and nothing had poped out. The point of this diatribe was to suggest maybe a rethink about how the wiki is organized taking into account how users learn specific subjects and what documentation they need to have access to while they are learning. In this case I wouldn't group the "Master Attributes List" with file formats. The basic user doesn't really need to know about the insides of schematic or symbol file but they critically need to know about attributes, what they are, when and how to use and what their effects are. Not that this would help me as I probably wouldn't take the time to go through the basic documentation but it might help others. Perhaps a survey of new users and what their expectations/needs for shortening the learning curve? Steve Meier _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
