On 20/03/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Before we sever the connection, let's look hard for ways to > > reduce the source of annoying questions by making Wine more > > foolproof, if possible... > Good luck with that Dan :-) Considering what Wine is up against to even > run at all, I'm actually ecstatic with how it works currently. As I pointed out, it's getting in people who aren't geeks but give Linux a try. And when it gets a release marked "1.0" - even if it's not really that different to 0.9.57 - it'll get stupid amounts of press and there will be a *flood* of n00bs coming along. This is *nothing*. I'm thinking here of the experience of the Mozilla 1.0 announcement in 2002. That required getting a pile of stuff (documentation, etc) that was specifically n00b-ready. The moves to make the wiki and FAQs clear on user documentation versus developer documentation are a good start and need to be accelerated. It might be worth making a more general call for documentation help. > Here's an idea though, to be implemented on the forum: > Every time a user logs in, they get a Tip Of The Day at the top of the > front page, giving short one sentence faq-style tips, much like KDE > does by default, just on a web page. > Newbies love these things, they pick up wonderful tips. After a while > they often switch the feature off as it has served it's purpose. > Chances are good that by the time they get to ask a question, they will > already have read the nice friendly TOTD that answers it. Excellent! Excellent! The first three can be "Never run Wine as root" :-D - d.
