Re: Help topics / task help

[David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>]

I just looked at
  http://www.globalserve.net/~twoducks/task-help/kde/
.

Yes, I like documents that specify exactly "push this button, then click
that button". There's not much there right now; but I understand that you
are trying to just give some examples of what it will eventually look like,
before we start the massive effort to flesh it out completely.

I think this is the right level of detail for the most-detailed help pages.
Looks nice.

Your page takes the bottom-up approach (which is immediately useful), while
my page
  http://www.ionet.net/~caryd_osu/david/html/task_help.html
takes the top-down approach
(which reminds us which tasks still need to be documented).

Just because I'm a curious person, I glanced at
  http://www.globalserve.net/~twoducks/
to see if you had any other pages online.
But that page currently doesn't even link to the task-help pages
I already know exist, much less other pages that I don't know about.

Hopefully I will have a little more free time after finals are over in
about a week.

>From: Two Ducks <twoducks@globalserve.net>
...
>Do these files match with the view people had on what task files should
>be? Are they too simple or small? Any comments?
>
>I was aiming for simplicity and something that was easy to look at and
>read.
>
>The URL is
>  http://www.globalserve.net/~twoducks/task-help/kde/
...
>Ken


>From: Two Ducks <twoducks@globalserve.net>
...
>I have started to create some task-help for KDE (mostly cause
>my wife is learning to use KDE and these will hopefully help
>her.) I have been starting to write some of the ones listed in
>the documents at
>
>http://www.ionet.net/~caryd_osu/david/html/task_help.html
...
>I am aiming for both ease of use and a nice look and feel.
>
>Ken

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