On Mon, July 9, 2012 5:45 am, Scott Lavender wrote: > Can I ask what people would like in the "Help" menu? > > Xubuntu has information in their help file, which is most likely just > general desktop use. Do we wish to use this as a starting point and > moderate it to fit our applications? > > Should we try to include some basics for recording audio, editing video, > or > making graphics? If so, do we add to this help file, link to the website, > or include website text in a local file? > > I think we could even expand the "Help" menu to include things like a > "Release Notes" entry, link to the website, link to the forums, or link to > access IRC via webchat. I am thinking of this as almost a "Support" entry. > But these are just ideas.
I have done some thinking on this. I think that for the long term, there should be enough on the ISO/disk to get someone going with no net. That is, it is assumed that there will be a network connection at least through install, but a studio that has things working just right may want to freeze their install with no updates and no network connect. It would be nice if there was enough reference on the disk to answer minor questions. To start, I think it is valid to get at least a "list of links" page where everything is net linked and add local pages as we have time. I do not think disk space is a problem these days, but ISO space still is. So where an application we ship does not come with it's doc package, our doc page should have a pointer to an application that installs all the ISO app docs that may be missing or they should be downloaded at install time. In fact, if our doc pages get too big this would be an option for them as well, though there should be at least enough shipped to tell someone trying the ISO out this is the case. Our website already has a documentation section and so the URL should be in the ISO docs as for further reference so that people with a netless machine can easily look it up on their "other" computer ;-) (my opinion is that a working audio machine should not be used for accounting, browsing or word processing anyway and computers are cheaper than a lot of other audio equipment we buy, so a second computer is not unreasonable to expect... which is why I do everything on one machine :P ) -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
