Hi! I was playing around with WindowsXP and tried out there Helpbrowser, it was very nice indeed. They have the concept of a "Home" where you can click on different topics which takes you to the contents-view. I'm thinking of implementing this in Yelp, with a Home-view that could look something like: http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/yelp/help-home.html Clicking on one of the links will take you to the contents-view: http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/yelp/yelp-01.png What do you all think about this approach? The other thing I'd like to be discussed is what to do about man and info? The problem is that some users don't know what man/info is, some other users might want to browse only man or info, etc. I think there are three possible solutions: 1) Make them there own toplevel nodes: (as man in the help-home.html view). This is the easiest way (as done in Nautilus today). 2) Try to merge them into the rest of the documents (don't ask me how). This is probably hard to do in a good way. It is also (imho) bad because though people don't have to care about what 'man' is the documents will not be in the same style as the rest of the documents which might be confusing anyway. 3) Just don't show man/info and only show the documents that are in Scrollkeeper. So I'd like opinions on this as well. And finally, the last question: Will there be some documentation that will always be installed? I think that having some documentation that is always present would be pretty nice, and it will also make it possible to create a better "Home"-view since not all data is dynamic (ie. we could perhaps create a section in Scrollkeeper that will always be filled with documents). These documents would be about control-center/panel/other things that might fit in. So, what do you all think about these issues? Regards, Mikael Hallendal -- Mikael Hallendal micke codefactory se CodeFactory AB http://www.codefactory.se/ Office: +46 (0)8 587 583 05 Cell: +46 (0)709 718 918
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