On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 15:02 -0700, jps2012 wrote: >> I downloaded and installed Do via the Software Center. It launches, >> but I don't see any possible interactivity other than having it find >> the names of files on my OS (Ubuntu 11.04). I'm wondering if there's >> some kind of documentation that shows how to use it (or if it's >> possibly corrupt, since it doesn't seem to launch programs, allow me >> to manage my side panel or otherwise Do something). >> > > Hm. There is a bit of a problem with initial discoverability in Do; > it's something that I'm thinking about how to solve on and off. > > Out of the box, Do should at least index your applications, offer a > bunch of session actions (suspend, log out, restart, shutdown), offer to > create tinyurls, index your Tomboy notes, and a couple more things. Many > more options are available as plugins - go to Preferences and you'll see > a bunch of plugins available to enable. > > These plugins have some documentation - click the “About” button to get > it. I'm in the process of moving this documentation offline so it can > be installed with the packages.
One thing that may help is if Do provided some 'help' actions. Imagine if I can type 'help' and the default match is 'Help Using Do' and the text below says 'Press TAB, then DOWN for more help' or something. Or make it even easier and have it show the results window by default which eliminates having to teach them to down arrow (that would be discoverable, I think). Then of course we have more actions, which are basically like chapters in the documentation and if they run one it pops up the relevant chapter in the gnome help browser (or whatever). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en.
