On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote:

> I suspect that it will not be fun to make s5 pages look like
> screenbook screens.  To repeat, I suspect almost anything is possible
> in theory, but in practice it might be best to roll our own, perhaps
> using s5 as the primary guide.
>
> Can anyone prove me wrong?

Only in one sense -

In case of what you want and what you have are in contradiction, it's
often better to adjust the idea of what you want and settle for what
you have as much as possible. Custom solution start rotting
immediately when people stop caring about it, whereas something
compatible with rest of the tech out there (rst, sphinx, s5, ...) will
attract passerby attention again and again.

Rationale is that if you co-operate with an existing "recognized"
solution, you'll at least end up with something useful (leo S5
integration) even if the original aim (screenbook) didn't turn out to
be hugely important.

Tutorials like screenbook and screencasts are more about marketing
than anything else. Making a screencast is a *lot* easier, and the
audience gains roughly as much from it (they are also better for the
impatient). When I checked out the screenbooks, I didn't necessarily
use it as a learning tool. In was marketing for me - it showed me that
Leo is cool. I would have got exactly the same thought if someone had
made a screencast that exhibited the same ideas.

-- 
Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia

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