On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:35, Dan Korostelev wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:17 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > Here's an improved version of the manpage. It still needs some work.
> GNOME PPP is not only a accound configurer like wvdialconf. It is a > graphical frontend, a graphical dialer. It can dial, show status icon > and show some details, much like KPPP. I'll write it there. Also it > doesn't have an Info page. Wait for new package with updated manpage. Your new manpage still contains superfluous material: > This manual page documents briefly the gnome-ppp command. Superfluous. > This manual page was written for the Debian > distribution because the original program > does not have a manual page. Save this for the AUTHORS section. > gnome-ppp is a GNOME program for easy config- > uring and dialing PPP dialup accounts. ... for configuration and control of PPP dialup accounts. > It > uses wvdial as its dialing backend and stor- > ing accound configuration in wvdial.conf for- > mat, that can be used by plain wvdial. gnome-ppp is a front end for wvdial. Thus, PPP accounts set up using gnome-ppp can be used if you run wvdial from the command line. > Cur- > rently it only supports one account per user, > but multiple accounts configuring is planned > for near future. Don't document features that are only promised. That is useless information. If the feature is added later then you can add a description of the feature to the man page at that time. > GNOME PPP can also dock into your > GNOME/XFCE4/others notification area and show > connection detail while connected. See pro- > gram's setup window. In the setup dialog you can configure gnome-ppp to provide connection information in the desktop notification area. > These programs follow the usual GNU command > line syntax, with long options starting with > two dashes (`-'). Superfluous. > A summary of options is included below. Superfluous. > For a complete description, see the Info files. These files are not included so they should not be mentioned. -- Thomas Hood