I will be honest as a kubuntu desktop user, I will be honest I never turned to the in built help as it usually pointed to online help anyway. I just skip wasting time wiht the in built help and go directly and google what I am having a problem with.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Peter Matulis <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/09/2014 01:51 PM, Penelope Stowe wrote: > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Peter Matulis > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > Last Wednesday (May 7) we there was a Doc team meeting [1] and an > idea > > surfaced that an attempt be made to determine the general level of > > readership/usage of the help/doc facility in Ubuntu (Desktop). > > Including this facility involves participation in a rigid set of > > development/packaging rules & schedule that may not be worth the > > trouble. > > > > Preliminary poll: > > > > << Do people think conducting such a poll is worthwhile? >> > > > > > > Who would targeted as responders to said poll? If you only poll current > > Ubuntu users, you're probably going to get a different answer than if > > you poll current users as well as trying to get answers from current > > Windows and MacOS users who could potentially use Ubuntu down the road. > > I've done informal polling of this exact question among people I know > > and there's definitely a difference between the people I know who use > > Ubuntu (who tend to be slightly more technologically savvy) and those > > who use Windows/MacOS, but are part of the stated target of making > > Ubuntu friendly to/usable by everyone. > > > > My opinion on whether a poll would be useful does depend on knowing who > > would be the target of such a poll. There are ways to get non-technical > > and non-Ubuntu users to answer a poll on this question. If there's no > > decided target, then I will give a longer explanation of my thoughts. > > Thanks for your thoughts Penelope. > > I think polling Ubuntu users is good enough since there are former > Windows/Mac users among them. But you raise an interesting point: do > we want to know whether a user will even *look* for in-computer help? > My original idea was to determine to what degree Ubuntu users first > *know* about it and, if so, whether they *use* it. > > I would rather avoid a hypothetical question such as: "If you were an > Ubuntu user would you look for in-computer help?". > > Thoughts? > > peter matulis > > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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