--- Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some things that most people will not > recognize as being > distinct "applications", and which should therefore > have their help > combined into a general "&operatingsystem; Help". > These include gdm, > gnome-panel, Metacity, Nautilus, gnome-screensaver, > and the various > Preferences and Administration tools.
Exactly. I barely know what gdm is myself. > If I was having trouble opening an Excel spreadsheet > in Gnumeric, and I > didn't yet know that Gnumeric didn't offer any help > on opening Excel > spreadsheets specifically, I would get a bit annoyed > if I read through > Gnumeric's "Opening a file" help, only to realize > that it was > word-for-word the same as the "Opening a file" > section in almost every > other application. Indeed. What I mean is that the stuff on how the filechooser works should be written once and once only. That's things like typing in a location, using a bookmark, and then all the quite cool and advanced features that some of our users complain because they've not found them yet, like tab completion and whatever. That's assuming of course that all apps are using the standard filechooser -- they are, right? ;) And that's assuming the filechooser ever gets a help button. (Please, somebody, add a help button. The bug for that is nearing its first birthday.) Stuff that is specialized to each application, such as character encoding in Gedit, is of course written for each app. (This means that pluggability may need to happen on a finer level that the single page topic.) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
