Re: Templates directory looks pretty bare

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 21:08 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 10:54 -0400, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 14:48 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 14:15, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > > b) the Templates folder is visible so users can interact with it easily,
> > > > same as Desktop
> > > 
> > > Yes but then it should be renamed NautilusTemplates or something cause
> > > Templates is too generic especially under the Home directory - I had no
> > > idea what the empty Templates folder did in FC2 when I first installed
> > > it so I deleted that folder! Had I known it was used by Nautilus then I
> > > would of course have kept it.
> > 
> > Solid user documentation is absent in our platform releases.  Our rapid
> > releases are confusing developers and users, such as in the case of
> > spatial Nautilus and Templates.
> > 
> > What we need is a document about _Living with GNOME_.  It discusses how
> > to use the desktop and it's applications, instead of just indicating
> > what they do.  In the case of spatial Nautilus and templates, we pointed
> > users and developers to previous conversations, or to essays on other
> > sites to explain our reasoning.  Instead, our reasoning should be
> > incorporated into our documentation, aided with plenty of examples
> > derived from use cases.
> 
> I'd recommend that any time anybody comes up with the idea of creating
> some new document that they add gnome-doc-list to the CC list. :)
> 
> The documentation team has more-or-less decided to split off parts of
> the over-crowded User Guide into a 'Tour of the Desktop' type document,
> which is effectively what's being suggested here.  There's also been
> discussion of creating 'switcher' documentation, i.e. quick guides to
> the desktop directed at people switching from other platforms.
> 
> Anybody who wants to join the effort is welcome to do so.

Oh foo.  After telling people to CC gnome-doc-list on these sorts of
topics, what did I completely fail to do?  Hrmph.  Sorry for the spam.

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Shaun