fredagen den 13 april 2012 07.01.56 skrev Liam R E Quin: > On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 04:04 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > if I want a KDE application I have to > > install the handbook. > > Which seems to me exactly right. It's insane to install applications > without their documentation.
Some cases I also want all tutorials from internet on the subject, watch instructive videos... > I'd be really really annoyed if I was on a 'plane and tried to use some > KDE application (I'm normally a Gnome user) and found there was no Help > for it. It's unusual that I can figure out a KDE program without looking > at its handbook. Yes, but when i know a program.... > I suppose a compromise might be that the handbooks could be in > "suggested" packages alongside each program, though, as long as pressing > F1 automatically installed them, and explained what it was doing, and, > if it failed, fell back to some minimal documentation explaining the > purpose of the program and why the full documentation was not available. If i am on a slow network somewhere and want a program, i do not want to waste time, diskspace nor money in installing something i do not need. Some minimal doc could be excused, but it should not automatically start nertwork use when i ask for help. It could ask, or just say "more documentation is available in package nn ) Now the question maybe is the kde doc are so small it do not matter much, and i could gain more at just installing programs i need... > Liam > > [oops, why does evolution sometimes reply to lists with my default > account??] Check the doc ;) -- Morgan Leijström
