Re: the state of control-center help

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 17:31, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > I notice that the latest round of reshuffling tabs between capplets
> > left the docs behind.
> > The mouse capplet help talks about a no longer existing pointer
> > capplet,  the keyboard
> > capplet help talks about a layout options tab (which has been turned
> > into a secondary dialog),
> > the appearance capplet has no working docs at all...
> >
> > Would it be worthwhile to make 'working docs for all capplets' a goal
> > for 2.24 ?
> yes, definitely we want to have up-to-date docs,the problem is who is
> going to write them. I talked with Thomas at FOSDEM and we didn't know
> who was responsible for the docs, I even thought it was the gnome-doc
> team, so whatever we can do to fix this situation, let's do it :-)

I also mailed the gnome-doc mailing list back in February[1] about this  
issue, but got no response. Of course, I hope the software is usable  
without documentation, but it still feels slightly wrong not to include  
any at all. There may be concepts and ideas (such as "Themes") used in  
the software that, although obvious to us, are not so familiar to newer  
users. It would be useful to have at least some explanation for these  
users.

Regards,

Thomas

[1]  
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2008-February/ 
msg00029.html