RE: glossary

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip J Shelton [mailto:shelton@usq.edu.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:20 PM
> To: Telsa Gwynne
> Cc: gnome-doc-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: glossary
> 
> Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> > > (3) Somebody wants to enrich or entertain themselves by 
> reading a bunch of
> > > definitions. This would be a relatively rare use for the 
> glossary, but
> > > might be nice to have.  We could present a header page 
> with the letters of
> > > the alphabet linking to pages showing all the terms 
> starting with that
> > > letter.  Perhaps we could place some sort of a small 
> button("Browse"?) on
> > > the "Glossary" tab I suggested above which opens this 
> glossary browse
> > > page.
> >
> > I like this. I would use it. I was surprised to discover 
> that it wasn't
> > just me who would wander round /usr/doc or the manual pages 
> thinking,
> > "What else is on my system?" and reading it. But then, I am the sort
> > of person who looks things up in an encyclopedia or a 
> dictionary and
> > then gets sidetracked onto all the other entries.
> 
> I do that too.

Well, just to contribute to part of a thread that's going nowhere...  I've
found that reading the output from 'rpm -qa' (list all software installed on
my system) yields a bunch of packages I know nothing about.  The ones that
I've never heard of, I go find in /usr/doc.  I think I've learned what about
95% of the packages I have installed do that way.  The rest I just uninstall
and see what it breaks.  :-)

As for the glossary, I think that it would be nice to have (note nothing
more than that, since I'm not volunteering here) would be a sort of
thesaurus, something that would point you to IP-MASQ when you look up NAT,
etc.  
	Greg