On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:52:57 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Imo, tutorials will always be needed, but buttons may provide much needed > hints/scents/breadcrumbs. > > Furthermore, Leo's documentation (and ui) should make as clear as possible > what these main tasks are! >
On further thought, it seems that Leo is already close to providing the necessary "scents of the goals". They are, or easily could be, found in the help menu. A user trying to use Leo without reading or watching the tutorials is unlikely ever to discover how to do Leo's two primary tasks: 1. creating external files and 2. script Leo to access data in the outline. **No amount of ui trickery can change this fact**. Therefore, the primary "scents" will always be pointers to tutorials! For example, adding buttons for newbies would be ui junk. If the help menu does not suffice, nothing else will either. That's the main idea. Some details: 1. The help menu can be improved. It should contain: - items that open Leo's text and video tutorials online. - items that tell how to create external files within Leo itself. (help-for-creating-external-files). - nothing else. This means creating, say, a new Files (plural) menu and a new Settings menu. 2. <alt-x> ? must not be *just* an Easter Egg: newbies don't know about Easter Eggs! Presumably this means a new help-related command. Some invention will be required: <alt-x> ? is great because it uses the minibuffer effectively. Alas, newbies might have trouble with typing completion. This is the time for comments, my friends. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
