Re: There is no GHB 2.0

[Kenny Graunke <kwg teleport com>]

Personally, I like GNOME Help Browser. It is very GNOMEish. :-)
The "GNOME Help Browser" implies just that - help with GNOME things. The 
"Nautilus Help Browser" makes it sound a little too much like browsing 
help specific to Nautilus.

I realize that we are planning to expand it to include non-GNOME 
documentation (LDP, KDE, and so on), but things like "System Help 
Browser" do not make much sense to me either. Think of putting this on 
an AIX system, for example. We certainly will not have documentation 
covering -every- system. So it will not have OS documentation for 
everything.

I realize that it is being integrated into Nautilus. However, think 
about it - it serves the same purpose as the GHB 1.x, yet much more 
powerful (unless I am mistaken).

Also - people will probably access help through the menus or by a help 
link like the one mentioned above...I would not think to open a file 
manager window to view help. (I imagine that Nautilus would be 
perceived by many to be just that - a file manager/web browser 
combo...even though it can do much more.)

Kenny

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:19:27PM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill wrote:
> I think that calling it "Nautilus Help Browser" will tie this too much into Eazel
> 
> and their work. It is one thing to have Miguel, Nat, et.al. into Helix Code;
> quite
> another to have another company's work taking over what we have done. This
> may not be a big deal to everyone else but to me it does make a difference to
> feel of the direction of the project. Sort of like building a bridge, only to
> have
> Campells Soup come along and want the name changed to "Chunky Soup
> Span" or something like that.
> 
> Maybe we could call it "System Help Browser"?
> 
> Dan Mueth wrote:
> <snip!>
> 
> This is a good point - since the help browser will be built into Nautilus,
> 
> > what should we call it?   Do people favor changing the name to the
> > "Nautilus Help Browser"?
> --
> ./romp