On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:36 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Richi Plana wrote: > > > > > > > > I might just burn a couple of these spins and give them to former > > > colleagues who've not tried developing on Linux, yet. I hope the docs > > > (User's and API references are complete or bookmarked on Firefox) > > > > I don't think anything like that has been done yet but it could be > > easily done since bookmarks were separated out in a different package in > > the last release. File RFE's or bug reports for any desired changes. > > What do I file the RFE against? > > It's just that whenever I talk about ease-of-development, the first > thing that I bring up is documentation that makes it easy. And for that, > I always go back to Javadoc. It is, by and large, the best way to hook a > developer into using ones code. Unfortunately, the thing I noticed is > that when I install javadoc packages (including the Sun manual), no > links pointing to it are ever added. If there's an API to adding > bookmarks to Firefox externally (or, better yet, a global bookmarks file > for all browsers), that would help a lot. Imagine -devel packages > hooking their documentations into Firefox. (I understand yelp is doing > it but most of the good stuff is formatted a'la Javadoc and/or is > available online like http://library.gnome.org/devel/ Are you looking for the devhelp package? I'm still downloading the F8test2 Development spin, but on my F7 box, that's what I primarily use for quickly finding things like GNOME API descriptions. I perpetually find myself needing the docs while coding since I don't do it as often as I'd like. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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