Re: Addition to Empathy Help Introduction

[Harold Schreckengost <mewshi gmail com>]

On 05/02/2010 12:22 PM, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> Hi Harold,
>
> thanks for you patch.
>
> 2010/5/1 Harold Schreckengost<mewshi gmail com>:
>    
> > While the attachment is titled additionToIntroduction.diff, it also contains
> > a trivial edit to the account creation page (changing "with" to "using" in
> > the first paragraph).  I have no clue how to separate these edits.
> >      
> I'm fine with the small bits of the patch, and have already applied
> and pushed those parts.
> The part that I'm not so sure about is the one the patch was really
> intended: the new paragraph in the introduction page.
>
> In my mind that page is intended as a general introduction to what
> Empathy is, not to what you need or you have to do to run Empathy.
>
> When you first run Empathy, and you don't have any account set up, the
> assistant will be shown with a Help button that will provide you with
> (hopefully) all the information you need to register a new account, or
> what you need to set up the most common accounts.
>
> Why do you think we need such a paragraph in that page? What do others
> think about?
>
> Ciao.
>
>    
In the IRC channel, we got on the topic of a "getting started" section 
for applications.  I can't remember who it was, but one person suggested 
that was a good idea for larger applications, but for smaller 
applications (like Empathy) it made more sense to just add to the 
introduction page links that point to the first things someone will do 
(in this case, adding accounts, migrating from other messengers, and 
signing up for new accounts).  This idea made sense to me, so I went 
ahead and wrote the patch.

If this is a bad idea, I understand, although I feel that it makes 
sense, especially with something like Empathy where there are common 
tasks someone will undertake at the beginning.

For the F-Spot help, I am intending to have a "Getting Started" section, 
including, but not limited to, importing files, browsing files, etc.  If 
this is a bad idea, let me know, and I will move on without it.