On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:12 +0000, Matthew East wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently, many users have been calling for a program which starts up at > first login and introduces users to the basics about using and > configuring Ubuntu. I'm convinced that the onboard documentation will do > this job sufficiently well for dapper, the Desktop Guide in particular > has had lots of work and will be accessible enough for users to see > quickly where to find the right answers. In my personal opinion Dapper > is the first release where I can say that the onboard documentation will > do a good job. > > However, one of the big problems for us as the documentation team is > that the onboard help is not used nearly enough, this leads to people > spending more time looking for help, and hitting the forums/irc/mailing > lists with questions which are answered in the documentation. > > I'd like to suggest an easy way to resolve this problem: restore the > help icon on the gnome-panel. This will make the onboard documentation > easily accessible for new users. I would earnestly urge you to > reconsider the decision that was taken to remove this icon! Users need > to know the documentation is there, and those that don't can remove the > icon with two clicks.
The help browser is way way too slow to be usable IMHO. I click System->Help and it takes about 8 seconds for the window to even appear and another 8 seconds for anything to appear in it. Lee -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
