On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:04 AM, D. Michael McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > There's been some talk about dependencies and whatnot, and one of the package > dependencies on one of the distros was khelpcenter. That got me thinking > about the Help menu, and how we're going to make it work. > > Should we bundle the Rosegarden Handbook with the application, and refer to it > via the help menu? If so, what browser do we use to access it?
The traditional Qt way to do this is to invoke Qt Assistant. I'm not particularly keen on that, just because it's one more external dependency, although these days Assistant is not a bad help browser. Qt does also have a complete web browser built in to it these days (look at the docs for QWebView), should we wish to use HTML without just invoking the user's own browser. Although DocBook is a total pain, one advantage it has over HTML is that at least you don't end up spending all your time piddling with image positioning and the like instead of actually writing the docs. And the results have a consistent look. > What do we think about not bundling a manual at all, and putting all the > documentation online only? I would have no strong objection to that either. To be honest, any of the above plans (and probably some others) would be OK with me -- you're more likely to have worthwhile views on it than I am. We should be focusing far more on the user experience and the level of difficulty involved with keeping the help up to date, than on the technical difficulty involved. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
