Re: indexing

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello ireland sun com>]

All, 

A central index covering Gnome core functions, applications and applets would be 
very handy, especially given the multiplexed nature of the Gnome desktop. At 
first, though, I would suggest a top-level approach to the index so that only 
the main topic headers are flagged, for example the only entry for an applet 
would be the applet header rather than applet actions. In other words, we need 
only put the entry "screen-shooter" into the index and not "screenshots, see 
screen-shooter". This might reduce the amount of work. 

Pat

> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 Dan Mueth wrote:
 
> Thanks John. This is something we would eventually like to have in
> gnome-db2html2, even if we do use ScrollKeeper to do fancy magic like
> providing a search feature that searches the index of many documents at
> once.
> 
> If we really want to have a central index, we might imagine faking
> together one (as Sasha suggested), but make it a single document which
> acts like an index to the other documents which are core to GNOME.  We
> could call it "The GNOME Index" and then put links like:
>   cd player -> gtcd
>   CPU: monitoring load -> multiload applet
>        identifying -> Nautilus hardware view
>   Themes: changing -> Control center: Appearance
> 
> or whatever.  This is really what the user wants. Of course this would be
> a lot of work to do well, especially to do a good job.  It would fit
> nicely into gnome-user-docs.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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