Re: Display bigger version of a photo on a tooltip

[Steve Dobson <steve dobson syscall org uk>]

Mathieu

Sorry for not responding before now but your message scored just high
enough on my spam detection to get a maybe score and was therefore not
delivered to my inbox.

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:08 -0400, Mathieu Avoine wrote:
[snip]
> Also, as for the shortcuts (part of the answer I gave to Steve one on
> one), I think the GUI should be self explained to some extent. In
> other words, the average user should not have to read the
> documentation to use it. I personally never read a manual to use
> (almost) any software I ever used. [snip]
> 
> Some of the greatest features of F-Spot are not THAT obvious in the
> GUI. Telling users to RTFM is not a solution, I'm sorry. Unless we
> change that mindset that plagues the linux community, we can forget
> about broad adoption of foss right there.

Firstly I think that the fact that you, me, and David managed to make
use of F-Spot without reading the docs says that the application is
discoverable.  Because I agree that telling newbies to RTFM is not a
solution.

But that was not what I was saying.  I think there are times when
reading the documentation (or in short RTFM) is the best (if not only)
way to advance your knowledge of a application.

If your happy with the way you use a tool then don't bother, but the
documentation was written for a reason and reading it should be second
nature if you use the application a lot.

Steve