Re: complaint

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Pat,
Putting the User's Guide on the Gnome site is an excellent idea. From my 
experience, blind people are generally satisfied with plain text or 
html. You might like to look at http://www.blindprogramming.com . The 
site has a lot of programming books in plain text. Another possibility 
would be to make it an online book like Havoc's book on writing GTK_ and 
Gnome applications.
Hope this helps.
John
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Pat Costello wrote:

> All, 
> 
> The comments from both John Boyer and Ray Koopman show that there is a need for 
> us to make the GNOME User Guide more generally available. How could we do this? 
> Perhaps we could have a location on the GNOME website where we make the latest 
> GNOME User Guide available in a variety of formats, as well as shipping with the 
> deskop for viewing in Yelp. We could then put the URL into the Where to Find 
> More Information sections in the Introduction and Overview type documents. 
> 
> This would need a bit of updating work and maintaining to make sure that the 
> latest versions are available from the GNOME website location. There seems to be 
> a demand, so we would be providing a needed piece of user support.
> 
> Any other views or ideas how we can help these users? 
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> > X-X-Sender: director Jumbo
> > To: Pat Costello <Patrick Costello sun com>
> > cc: docs gnome org, <koopman sfu ca>
> > Subject: Re: complaint
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> > 
> > Pat,
> > It would be nice for me and other blind users if the Gnome User's Guide 
> > were available as a single large html file or as an online book. Pdf files 
> > are likely to be a disaster.
> > Thanks.
> > John
> >  On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Pat Costello wrote:
> > 
> > > I think that printing out Help is a useful feature that many users would 
> > > appreciate. As we are putting pre-generated html files into the GNOME 
> package to 
> > > speed up the Yelp display of Help files, then it must be possible to add a 
> Print 
> > > functionality to Yelp. The Print button could print out the pre-gen html 
> files. 
> > > Maybe you would like to put this topic into bugzilla? 
> > > 
> > > As well as html files of Help, there is a generic pdf file of the GNOME 2.1 
> User 
> > > Guide available, which Eric Baudais put in the following location: 
> > >  
> > >  gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/user-guide.pdf 
> > >  
> > > The Sun team also have a slightly later Solaris-variant version of the pdf 
> file, 
> > > for the GNOME 2.2 User Guide, we can make that file available to you if you 
> > > don't mind the infrequent mentions of Solaris. 
> > > 
> > > If you don't want to copy over and print out bits of the pdf files then, 
> someone 
> > > at Red Hat should tell you where the pre-generated html Help files reside in 
> the 
> > > Red Hat distro and you should be able to print out the pages you need from 
> those 
> > > files. 
> > > 
> > > Pat
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Delivered-To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
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> > > > 
> > > > This is about the on-line documentation (GNOME User's Guide, Introduction 
> to  
> > > > GNOME, Nautilus User Manual) that comes with Red Hat Linux 7.2.  How do I  
> > > > get printed copies of these?  Directions for printing them, with page 
> numbers  
> > > > (and an index?), should be almost the very first information given!
> > > > 
> > > > Also, in Introduction to Gnome / Where to Find More Information / Gnome  
> > > > Resources on the Internet, clicking on the pointer to GnomeFAQ gives only 
> the  
> > > > error message `"gnome-help:users-faq" is not a valid location. Please 
> check  
> > > > the spelling and try again.'
> > > > 
> > > > Ray Koopman
> > > > <koopman sfu ca>
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