Re: Linux.com review
- From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>
- To: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
- Cc: GNOME Documentation <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Linux.com review
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:05:09 -0800
Yeah, I read that too. I was going to blog about it as well because
it's so nice to get that kind of feedback. Great job guys, you're doing
a heck of a job. ;)
It's too bad, Shaun isn't around I wanted to point that out to him.
sri
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 14:09 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> GNOME 2.14 has been reviewed at Linux.com [1]
>
> Here's what they said about our docs:
>
> ----
> The same is true for Yelp, GNOME's help system. At
> times, the text in Yelp refers to older releases. At
> others, the text has more compound and complex
> sentences than is consistent with ease of use. Yet,
> despite these problems, Yelp is noticeably more
> useful. It now displays not only GNOME help, but also
> man and info pages, the help systems of the command
> line. More importantly, like Nautilus, Yelp has gained
> a search tool. With these changes, Yelp finally has
> the interface it needs to be truly useful, even if
> more work is needed to polish the contents.
> ----
>
> I'm thinking the bit about 'compound and complex
> sentences' might refer to stuff I've written. Oops. If
> anyone spots culprits, please let me know and I'll fix
> them.
>
> I don't think documentation is *ever* something about
> which a review will say "hey, the documentation REALLY
> ROCKS". So I think that "doesn't suck any more" counts
> as a pretty good review :)
>
>
> [1] http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/17/0350228
>
>
>
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