Thanks for working to improve the docs. I agree with you that it's an
opportunity for improvement.
Jeff Abrahamson
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On 31 May 2016 at 20:39, Colin Clark <ccl...@mcb.net> wrote:
> >> There may be people trying to use Geeqie who struggle just to download a
> >> tar and do a make. For them, compiler warnings are an unnecessary worry,
> >> because they do not understand that the warnings are in fact irrelevant
> >> to them.
> > I don't think that people who struggle over that output will ever
> > compile geeqie themself. They use the version, the distribution is
> > giving him.
> >
> I understand your point of view, but I am not in complete agreement.
>
> I can do a few things with software, but I have no patience when I am
> trying to get other people's software to run. If I download something
> from the interweb, do a configure/make and get a screen-full of
> messages, I will not spend any time trying to understand it. I will find
> another app and try that.
>
> I would rather leave endless messages that may or may not be meaningful
> to the profis.
>
> I much prefer programs that, if they create a run-able binary, show no
> message other than "It works, try it". I would prefer Geeqie to be that
> way, but I am also happy for it to stay as it is.
>
> To continue the point of making it easy for newcomers to use Geeqie, I
> would perhaps like to see a copy of the Help file on geeqie.org so that
> people may read it before trying a download. I will also (sometime) try
> to create some screenshots for the geeqie.org page.
>
> A few days ago, for the first time in years, I read the Geeqie Help
> file. Traumatic. I think it does not create a good impression of Geeqie.
>
> Since then I have spent far more time than I wanted to trying to improve
> it. In a few days time I will put the files into a branch on the
> repository so that people may comment on it.
>
>
>
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