On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Dan Winship <d...@gnome.org> wrote: > Dave Neary wrote: > >> - Should we just ditch the docs and declare the UI self-explanatory ? > > > > Definitely not. > > Why not? Seems like no one has ever bothered to file bug reports about > the fact that they're wrong... Maybe there are as few people reading the > docs as there are writing them. In a corporate setting, people will call > their help desk when they have problems, and in a home setting, they'll > either ask a friend/family member, or ask on a forum. (If people RTFMed > first, we wouldn't need an acronym for it.)
This is a moot point unless it can be proven. If we want to get rid of the docs, we need to run a survey/study first and determine how many people read them. > > > But it's not so much "declare the UI self-explanatory" as "accept the > fact that a non-self-explanatory UI *with* documentation is not any more > usable than a non-self-explanatory UI *without* documentation". > > -- Dan > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -Natan
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