On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:32:45PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 04 mars 2010 à 15:20 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > No. It’s just that they ship with HTML documentation, which is much more > > > suitable for documenting a GUI. A manual page cannot contain things as > > > trivial as screenshots, which are mandatory. > > > > But a manual page can at least provide a link to the HTML documentation. > > > > This is far better than letting the user guess how to access the > > documentation. > > Because, of course, the user is too stupid to click the “Help” menu > inside the application.
Because the users have not yet decided if they want to start the application and they look to the manpage for guidance. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304161215.gw4...@yellowpig
