Hi Dan, Thanks for your suggestions to improve the documentation of phpMyAdmin.
> Why not here also provide a link to > http://localhost/phpmyadmin/Documentation.html ? > It's not like one needs a password to see it. > Also one might not be online, so cannot visit > http://www.phpmyadmin.net/, while all along, the documentation is > right under one's nose locally. That sounds reasonable. I'll pass that to upstream. > Also no need for the random string above. I don't have that string. > And why don't you at least symlink > -rw-r--r-- 1 213402 2007-01-12 22:35 > /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/Documentation.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 213402 2007-01-12 22:35 > /usr/share/phpmyadmin/Documentation.html > to save file space? > But wait, first split that giant file into chapter files. > > We also see /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/changelog.gz is in > /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ChangeLog. > > Indeed, don't duplicate things to /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin. Instead > just add a note there about the proper way to read them (via > http://localhost/phpmyadmin/... , not file:/// Those sound reasonable. I'll see how I can improve the packaging after Etch. (I've only recently adopted this package, and the package can surely use some cleanup) > By the way, Documentation.html lacks a section about day to day normal > usage. > > For starters: login as root to control everything. Login a some mysql > user just to control that users' stuff. > > There should be a tool tip balloon when host=%. > > Obviously there is a missing tutorial. I'll take these issues up with upstream to see what extra documentation can and should be provided. > There ought to be a logout button not only on the home page. The fire > alarm sounds. I must leave my terminal. Wikipedia has a logout button > on every page. Not phpmyadmin... It is. It's actually, very aptly, an "exit sign" located in the left bar. Thijs
