Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga HCL and documentation

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 13/08/10 00:56, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> How does one update the hardware compatilbilty list at:
>
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Tested_hardware
>
> I have a couple of submissions regarding webcam hardware which works fine, and
> hardware which doesn't.

Yannick will make you an account on the wiki, and modify it as you like, 
thank you.

> Another query - is any assistance needed with documentation? As a new user
> looking through the online manual at
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Documentation it's jarring to read things like:
>
> "If this test was successful you can continue on to the next page REPLACE_of
> this documentation_REPLACE. Otherwise you should REPLACE_restart the
> assistant_REPLACE and test"

You are right.

The final goal from my point of view is to remove the Help files from 
ekiga code (http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/tree/help), since they are 
very big (windows Ekiga goes from 18MB to 12MB without them), and 
replace them with Web pages on the wiki.  The problem is that the 
translations will be lost, but it is better in my opinion have only in 
English and updated, than multi-language and obsolete or incomplete.

During this process, some information from the wiki pages can be removed 
and replaced with tooltips in ekiga code, for ex. the section 
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Managing_VOIP_Accounts#Adding_a_SIP_account 
will be unuseful afterwards.

Also, some information is found in Documentation wiki page and in other 
wiki pages.

So to go back to the question: how can you help.  Please look at the 
wiki and tell us how to improve it practically.  Let's do it!

--
Eugen