Re: dogtail-devel Script for generating parodies of bad documentation

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Dave Malcolm wrote:
> I've been a bad, bad, person and written this dogtail [1] script:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dogtail/examples/no-help-at-all.py?view=markup
> 
> You pass it the accessible name of a running application, and it scours
> that application's GUI, reading it back to you in DocBook form.
> 
> The idea is (i) to parody some of the unhelpful user documentation I've
> seen over the years - please don't write documentation that looks like
> this!  This was inspired in part by reading Shaun McCance's Project
> Mallard notes here: http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/quack/mallard.xml
> (ii) to provide a source of test data for help viewers, such as Yelp,
> and for stylesheet authors
> 
> Attached is an example of the output when I pointed the script at gedit.
> My apologies...
> 
> [1] http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/index.html

Hah. That's awesome. You evil, evil man.

Zack