2009/8/24 Shaun McCance <[email protected]>: > > 3) If you stop and think about what a user is *really* trying > to do, you'll often find that this task is only part of it. > Sometimes we have to break up tasks. But this gives us the > chance to direct users to the rest of what they need. > > In the "Create an IRC account" example, I don't think any > users are really trying to create an IRC account. They're > trying to get onto irc.gnome.org#docs for our Q&A session. > > You can use Empathy to connect to one or more IRC networks. > To connect to an IRC network, you have to create an IRC > account in Empathy. You need to create an account before > you can join an IRC chat room or chat with a user on IRC. > To see how to chat on IRC, see <irc-manage>. > > If we had an IRC concept page, we could just link to it from > the first occurrence of the word IRC, obviating the need for > even more text.
Yes, that's an interesting addition. I think we could write one and test how it comes out: if it's not too long there wouldn't even be a lot of new translatable strings, and adding a link would be easy. If we like the outcome we could add it to Makefile and we are ready. > (By the way, wouldn't it make sense to link "Create an IRC > account" into the "Use IRC" guide? It doesn't mean we have > to remove it from "Manage accounts". That's the beauty of > Mallard.) Yes, I think I added it only as a seealso link, since it belongs more to the manage account thing, but makes sense to add as a "normal" topic. -- Milo Casagrande <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
