Re: man pages for gnome-*

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

There is Help available for almost all applications and applets in the
GNOME Desktop. There is also Help available for the desktop environment
(that is panels, windows, file manager, preference tools, and so on).
GNOME has a Help browser, where you can view the help.

You can access Help on the GNOME Desktop in the following ways:

- For Help on the desktop environment, choose Applications > Help from
the Menu Panel. Use the Help browser to navigate to the Help that you
require.
- For Help on applications, start the application for which you require
Help. Choose Help > Contents. 
- For Help on panels and panel objects, right-click on the panel or the
panel object, then choose Help.
- For Help on particular dialogs, click on the Help button on the
dialog.

The Help for the desktop environment is from the User Guide at
http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest. I don't think the System
Administration Guide is available from the help browser yet, but I hope
it will be soon.

I am interested to hear any feedback you have on where the documentation
is not complete, or any suggestions that you have to improve the
documentation.

Thanks,
Eugene

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Subject: Re: man pages for gnome-*
Date: 15 Jun 2003 17:10:09 -0700
From: Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs tcsn net>
To: skip-lists pelorus org
CC: gnome-list gnome org
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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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