Re: man pages for gnome-*

[Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs tcsn net>]

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:16, Skip Morrow wrote:
> Where is all the documentation for the gnome-* applications?  Or is the
> output from gnome-appname --help really all there is?  I don't have man
> pages for all but a very few of my gnome apps.

Skip -

I have just found a good deal more documentation at gnome.org: 
http://www.gnome.org/learn/
including a Users Guide and a SysAdmin's Guide.  While not nearly
complete, they did give me enough information to let me do some
customization.  I also discovered that there is pretty good Help for
some of the functions that have *no* other references (e.g.,
gnome-session-properties) that I needed to use to set up some programs
to run at startup.  I found that by doing a "locate session" search and
checking for documentation on everything in the resulting list.  The
Gnome Gurus must have something besides the code <grins>.

The trouble is, of course, that gnome is under such heavy development
that the documentation is tracking a rapidly moving target:  and writing
good documentation (or, indeed, any), is at least as hard as writing the
code with the downside that you can't then run it and watch it do whizzy
things.

-- 

--Jeff

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