On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:13:09PM -0700, Manish Singh wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:41:52AM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > > > If it's important enough to be documented, it's important enough to be > > > put in a useful format. Other formats are secondary. > > Sure - but whats 'useful'? The average user might have a total different > > understanding about what is useful for him than what is useful for us as > > developers. I think users probably don't care which format the content > > is distributed unless they can access it. This could be really bad or > > good some times ... > > This flash movie seemed to be aimed at developers.... Let me care about documentation contributors and how we try to get other people involved. If everyone think, that this is a very bad approach (no one else raised his voice so far), then I've no problem to remove the flash introductions. I was just asking if it is possible to put flash tutorials for new _users_ between the other tutorial content on the GIMP page. > > Why not making them available and let the public decide if it's good or > > bad for them? > > > > I sometimes have the feeling that contributions were discussed to death, > > instead of placing them somewhere people can find and improve them > > afterwards. > > I feel what belongs on official GIMP pages should have some baseline > standards, just like what goes in the codebase has to live up to a > standard of code quality. > > What's next after Flash? Word documents? Do we still fight the war against the evil proprietary software? I mean, if the GIMP project strictly forbidds using any proprietary software (incl. libraries, formats whatsoever), than you have a point and we can stop this discussion. Otherwise I still can't see the point what is wrong about using Flash as a different media for helping users ... Greetings, -- Roman Joost www: http://www.romanofski.de email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx
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