Re: libglade frustration

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 06:26 -0700, Jim George wrote:
> > So you want to know how to use it and you intentionally
> > avoid one of the most efficient ways to learn it.  Well, if
> > it works for you...
>
> What is so inefficient about taking an example (that already exists)
> and including it in the HTML/online documentation that more people
> read than source code in tarballs?

The question here, is why dont users go and consult the tarball,
if only to see if the maintainer included a Documentation directory
(you'll find that one usefull in the linux kernel tarball for 
example), if only to read the README, if only to read about some
gotcha about why it compiles strange on some obscure system, if
only for some reason, whatever reason, the point is that the
tarball comes from the people who wrote the software.

What you are asking for is that people who sacrifice large
portions of thier time to write free software for you to 
use - to go ahead and spend the rest of thier time making
sure that every fool on the planet who doesnt know how to
look in the right place for thier information be well guided.

It just doesnt work that way, we cant be responsable for guessing
where people are going to look for help, people have to
use thier reasoning and go fetch the information at the source.

Cheers,
                   -Tristan