Unfortunately we can't release raw videos of the tests, because one of
the conditions of the subjects' participation is that we don't publish
personally identifying information. However, as with other projects, I
will report bugs for all the problems test participants encounter with
the Ubuntu Help, when they open it while performing other tasks. We
can't really test the help directly, because looking for something in
the help is not itself an interesting task, so asking people to do it
would produce unrealistic results.

This means that the testing data on Ubuntu Help will be rather
incidental and piecemeal, so you'll need to extrapolate issues with one
topic to other topics. For example, the Nautilus Backgrounds help is
needlessly wordy, and insensitive to possible wrong turns the user has
made — but those two problems are common to many of Ubuntu's help pages,
not just that one. A systematic approach to fixing those problems might
use the help page structure I proposed in 2006.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHelp/PageStructure>

Now, should that wait until the Gnome user guide is rewritten? I don't
see any point in waiting, unless there's going to be a license change
that prevents text in the existing guide from being copied into new help
pages. Otherwise, the new text could be written now, and copied into the
new structure when it's ready.

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Nautilus "Changing Backgrounds" help is tl;dr and doesn't cross-reference 
desktop background
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394335
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