That makes a lot of sense to me, so I pushed that change. Thanks! Robby
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan Culpepper wrote at 09/27/2011 02:45 AM: >> >> On 09/27/2011 12:33 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>> >>> Did someone decide whether to rename "Help Desk" to "Racket >>> Documentation", such as on the DrRacket "Help" menu and the "About" >>> dialog? >>> >>> I still see "Help Desk" in version 5.1.3.10--2011-09-24. >> >> IIRC, multiple textbooks refer to the "Help Desk" menu item, so that >> probably won't change. > > For the possible benefit of everyone who is *not* using those textbooks, > perhaps there could be a "Racket Documentation" item to the "Help" menu, > which did the exact same thing as the "Help Desk" item on the same menu. > Maybe as the first item, or right above the separator line. > > That would also provide a migration path for eventually dropping "Help Desk" > from DrRacket, if it is dropped from subsequent editions of all the > textbooks. > > I'm not certain this is a good idea, but I don't think I'm entirely smoking > crack either. > > I get the impression that there's an ongoing problem of many people not > knowing that a shelf of useful documentation is right at hand, and this is > one way to nudge them toward it. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
