Am Die, 2003-08-19 um 15.08 schrieb Raphaël Quinet:
> Now I am confused. I thought that we were talking about the online help
> system, not about the manual (GUM). It looks like you consider both of
> them to be the same thing. Is that right?
The old gimp-help was build upon the content of the GUM. And yes, I
think it still makes sense to derive the onlinehelp from manual (but not
the other way round).
> I thought that the online help would be something that is focused on
> explaining individual functions, i.e. one page for each feature. If I
> understood you correctly, you would like to merge these functional
> descriptions with something that is more like a tutorial.
Exactly, I think online help is only worth it when it helps people. That
means it should provide information about the topic at hand, it's
meaning, a short description how it works, the available parameters and
at least a link to some tutorial.
Typically some builtin help is more like a rephrasing of what a
non-blind person can see in the user interface. I don't think this is
helpful at all; I think the person desperately trying to retrieve some
useful information which cannot be found is more annoyed by the loss of
time than the missing help. At least I made that experience some years
ago with quite prominent MS software.
> For the "online help" part (the part that is called directly by the GIMP
> when the user invokes the context help), I do not see any need to allow
> anything else than a one-to-one mapping between the English version and
> the translations.
Yes, for this it may not be necessary technically, but why restrict
oneself when more is possible without additional efforts... :)
> I think that too many people are confused now. Daniel, it would be nice
> if you start a new thread with a message explaining what are the plans
> for the new help system. I would like to know what are the goals,
> non-goals and the proposed implementation. Note that these goals do not
> necessarily have to be discussed: it would be fine for me if you said:
> "I am going to do it like that or not at all." But at least these ideas
> should be summarized in a clear way, to avoid future confusion about the
> plans for the help system.
Caught me here. I fear I still haven't provided enough information so
I'd probably be better off investing some time into some updated
paperwork which I can refer to. I'm a bit busy though so please don't
hold your breath....
--
Servus,
Daniel
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