Re: gtt suggestions

[Russell Nelson <nelson crynwr com>]

csmall@scooter.o.i.net writes:
 > Eckehard Berns wrote:
 > > I was thinking about a man page for gtt. But are man pages really the way
 > > to go in a GUI?
 > 
 > May I suggest we go the same way as GNU.  They have man pages for all their
 > programs 


Nooooooo!!!!!  Man pages are fine.  Info pages are fine.  HTML pages
are fine.  Text files are fine.  I don't care!  Make your
documentation in ANY and ONLY THE format you want.  (The proposed)
Gnomedoc (the program which gets run when you hit the '?' button on
the panel) can search through, and properly present, ANY and ALL of
the above documentation.

The old standard used to be man pages.  You can say "man foo", or "man
-k thingie".  Obviously that standard is dead, and there's no bringing 
it back to life.  We need to create a new standard which is
backwards-compatible to .man, .info, .txt, and .html.  And we may as
well call it gnomedoc.

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