Re: Gnome Help Browser - Suggestions

["Nicholas Curran" <nicholas35pulsar linuxmail org>]

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:49:42PM -0400, Matthew
Colyer wrote:
> My name is Matt and I have helped a little bit in
the past with
> Screem code and documentation. I am no expert
coder or documenter but I
> would be willing to work on a help browser that
works on older machines. I
> can not stand Nautilus it doesn't even render my
home directory completely
> at the moment. ( I do not mean to bash the
Nautilus folks for writing this
> code. It really is feature rich but some of us
just don't have the
> computing power to run it. ) What all would
writing the new Gnome Help
> Browser entail doing?

I've been thinking about this for a while (a week),
especially on displaying the help.  If anyone would
like to either suggest better ideas, or tell me where
I can put mine, go ahead.

SECTIONS
The following sections are the main part of my Big
Idea (tm).
* Gnome Intro
  When people log in to GNOME for the first time, and
need help, we shouldn't have the help system buried
away somewhere in the menu system.  I feel we should
have the browser start immediately, and display this
page, showing the GNOME User Guide, and other
introductory documentation.  In other words, help the
user when they most need help.
* GNOME Programs
  New users will then wonder what `AbiWord' and
`GEdit' do.  The smarter ones will explore and find
out, while the others will give up or ask a friend.  A
section which shows each GNOME application for which
documentation is installed, with a description, would
be handy.  They could even be allowed to start the
application from the browser.
* GNOME Programming
  Access to the programming documentation.  This is
just to make it easier for would be GNOME hackers to
work out how to start, and allow experienced hackers
quicker and easier access.
* Info
  Self explanatory
* Man
  Self explanatory

When viewing GNOME documentation (done in SGML), it
would be nice to have a toc and an index page, like
the GIMP docs have.

<disclaimer>
These are just suggestions.  I've typed this up real
quickly, so there are probably errors etc.  Oh, and
seen as I am suggesting all this extra work, I would
like to help, when time permits.
</disclaimer>

Nicholas Curran
<nicholas35pulsar linuxmail org>


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