On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:16:27AM -0700, Tamie Burch wrote:
> I am a very new GIMP user. I am also not a very knowledgeable graphics person.
> So I located your User Manual in hopes that it might help me learn more about
> your product for my personal web designing needs. I sponsor a couple of very
> simple web sites for the theatre and general aviation groups I am a part of.
> [...]
> As a fellow writer I know how much work would be involved in re-writing such a
> large document. But maybe these few suggestions for modifying/adding to it
> might help users who need something written at a little lower level.
>
> 1) In every subsection (i.e., 5.1 Path Creating, 5.3 Transforming Paths, etc.),
> add an actual step-by-step exercise that can be followed to actually create
> what you are describing.
Yes - I like this proposal. I think that would improve our manual a lot.
I thought about amalgamate some tutorial chapters which first tell your
the the facts and give you one or two tutorials afterwards. Check my
thoughts I had in the past:
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-docs/2007-February/000682.html
> 2) In the paragraph descriptions, try not to use high level buzz
> words, such as in section 6. Brushes "pixmap". There is no real
> definition of it, or anything that can find or understand.
What do you propose to use in this context. An example on how we can do
it better would be nice :)
> 3) Stay consistent throughout the document. As suggested in item #1, putting
> step-by-steps would be helpful.
> You have some like in section 9 for creating a
> brush. But other sections that could use these don't have any.
We could do a bug report out of this. Are there other chapters lack
of consistency or chapters missing the same content used in a few
sections ...
> 4) Be consistent with terminology. Such as using the word "options"
> and "dialogs" for the pop-up windows used for all the tools. It
> becomes confusing.
I created a bug report for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467568
Feel free to comment.
> Of course I have not yet read through the entire document, so some of these
> ideas/suggestions might have been followed further into the manual. If not, I
> hope they are helpful making a good product much better and more useful to a
> wider audience.
Prepare to find more glitches. There is currently no maintainer for
English. Julien contributed a lot content for English even when no one
maintained this translation. So, thanks to him this translation isn't
gone aboard ;)
Greetings,
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Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx
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