Re: PROPOSAL: UISG Menu Line Standardization

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

Okay, give me a program to document and I'll get to work.

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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Evan Lawrence wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, JR Tipton wrote:
>
>> Write the documentation.  The users will love you for it.
>> 
>> There is no argument to that.
>
>One thing I'd like to point out here is that, while I'm sure noone says
>documentation is a bad thing, many coders (and I certainly include myself
>is this) code for fun  (why else would they be giving the software away
>for free?) and feel that their time could much better spent actually
>coding, or learning, or coding, or debugging or (did I mention coding?) 
>since writing documentation is kind of a drag IMO... My suggestion
>to those people here who aren't actually writing any code - I know
>you're out their :) - and feel that documentation is so important
>(although if you develop an intuitive enough UI very little documentation
>should be necassary) *and* if you also feel like helping out in the GNOME
>project, volunteering to write documentation I'm sure would be much
>appreciated. Telling the programmer to write the documentation is slightly
>less well recieved, since they're already contributing in some other way.
>