Hi Michael, Am 11.04.2007 um 15:33 schrieb Michael Schumacher: > Hi all, > > I'm frequently pointing users to the manual from mailing lists, > irc, usenet and forum posts. Sometimes, I discover entries in the > manual that are > The GIMP community con really be proud of your engagement for all kind of GIMP users! So, having the manual as a reliable source is how we can support you. > - wrong (fortunately, this doesn't happen frequently) yeah, sometimes we are plain wrong (or simply outdated) > - incomplete (a bit more frequently) over 600 pages and still don't cover everything... > - not easily reachable from a related page Can you explain this please? There is a toc in front and an index in the end of the manual (in over a dozen languages each). Additionally there is a possibility to do a fulltext search online at docs.gimp.org as well as the possibility to download the whole manual as pdf and do a fulltext search offline. > > An example for the last item is the reason for this mail - I wanted > to point someone at the blend tool docs and discovered that there > is no link from http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-blend.html to an > explanation of gradients or the gradient editor.... OK, this is obviously a flaw. And it is one that can be fixed easily. > a site map that does show the links between pages could be useful > for checking this. um, a site map is a structured list (more a tree) like the toc is?! Could you be a bit more specific about your needs please? > > The way to fix this would be to create a bug report (and either > provide a patch or to wait if someone else does it). Thats what bug filing is good for. We even have our own product by now! > But I wonder if anything can be done to verify the docs in a more > organized way. There is, but this takes time. I guess the next big thing will be an review for GIMP2.4, but starting this makes no sense until we have reached a feature and GUI freeze in the 2.3 line. > > "Review" is probably the most obvious answer for the first two > issues, the question is "What is the best way to do it?". Right now it is _really_ important for me/us to learn about the weaknesses of the manual, so if you file a bug about flaws _and_ let us know about your ideas to enhance the manual is the best you can do. Greetings, lexA > > > Regards, > Michael > -- > "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... > Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-docs mailing list > Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs --- Live is like a chocolate box, you never know what you wanna get... GPG Signatur auf http://wernicke-online.net/Impressum/ prüfen _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
