Hey, I spent some time last night to update the sound section of the user guide to match reality. After that, I spent some more time to look over the user guide and compare it to my desktop. The results, I must say, are shocking. Here are some highlights:
Mouse preferences - button, motion tabs are now general - timeout is now double-click timeout - pointer theme has moved to appearance capplet - a11y tab is now here Keyboard preferences - keyboard tab is now general - separate group is now separate layouts - separate layouts is above selected layouts - a11y and mouse keys tabs are now here Login photo no longer exists Printing Preferences does not exist A11y - assistive technology is now assistive technologies - screenreader magnifier, on-screen keyboard are now in perferred apps Keyboard shortcuts - misses Accessibility section - adding shortcuts is missing Screen resolution - multi-monitor functionality not mentioned - detect monitors button not mentioned - mirror screens checkbox not mentioned - rotation not mentioned - make default no longer exists - show in panel not mentioned - apply button not explained Preferred applications - is now organized in tabs - multimedia player not mentioned - a11y apps not mentioned - start in terminal is now run in terminal Desktop background - now part of appearance Font preferences - now part of appearance Menus and toolbars - now part of appearance Theme - now part of appearance - theme:// no longer exists - custom theme now includes color and pointer Window preferences - titlebar action not mentioned - should have cross-reference to keyboard docs explaining the modifiers Network settings does not exist Network proxy - advanced configuration tab is now ignoerd hosts Sessions - show splash doesn't exist anymore - prompt on logout doesn't exist anymoer - automatically save is now automatically remember running applications... - named sessions no longer exist - current session tab no longer exist Take screenshot - doesn't mention copy to clipboard - doesn't mention drag-and-drop - doesn't explain --interactive, --remove-border, --delay=seconds Nautilus - using removable media section is severely outdated - views preferences misses default zoom levels - media tab is not mentioned I did a review of the admin guide a while ago, with similar results. Some of these are minor details, but many of the major UI revisions date back 2,3,4,5 releases. That leads me to some provokative questions: - If the docs team doesn't have the man power to follow major UI changes, why bother with a UI freeze at all ? - Are we just waiting for some corporate sponsors to pick up the docs where Sun left them many years ago ? - Should we just ditch the docs and declare the UI self-explanatory ? - Is there anything that can be done, short of transmutating hackers into technical writers at next guadec with the help of poisoned beer ? Matthias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list