Hi Chris,

definitely like your doc layout. Could you make a bug out of it?! Just 
dump your suggestion into a comment.

Thanks,
Thomas

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> What I would personally suggest is to reorganize your wiki docs to 
> take the view of someone coming to qooxdoo for the first time. Make 
> the main heading sections be things that new users will want to 
> 'discover' and then give them a good portion of "why" things are done, 
> before dumping them into the lower levels of "how" they're done.
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> This is just a rough idea -- I don't know enough of all the system 
> details to make an accurate list...
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>    * Get all the document detail wiki pages up and working
>      (http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/0.8/) in their current layout 
> state.
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>    * Identify "Areas" of functionality, that need a higher level set of
>      documentation. These Areas could be things like:
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>          o *qooxdoo Quick Start - Installing the SDK* /and getting your
>            fist app runing./
>                + The ideas and concepts behind qooxdoo
>                + Unix-like installation & setup
>                      # Standard or SVN
>                + Windows installation & setup
>                      # Standard or SVN
>                + Mac OSX installation & setup
>                      # Standard or SVN
>                + Hello qooxdoo World
>                + Simple Stand Alone app (a full qooxdoo based
>                  "desktop-style" app)
>                + Simple Inline app (adding a small qooxdoo app to an
>                  existing html web page)
>          o *The qooxdoo Generator*
>                + An overview of how to generate your apps with qooxdoo
>                + The different types of applications you can generate.
>                + The organization of a generated qooxdoo project - what
>                  goes where, and why.
>                + ...
>          o *Unit Testing* /how to help make sure your apps work/
>                + The idea behind Unit Tests.
>                + How to add and use the qooxdoo Test Runner in your app
>                + Intermediate Testing
>                + Advanced Testing
>          o *Debugging & Profiling*
>          o *OO Programing */with qooxdoo/
>                + All the Class, Interface, Mixin stuff here.
>          o *GUI Development*
>                + Widgets
>                + Layouts
>                + ...
>          o *Events*
>          o *AJAX* /server communication/
>          o *Custom Widgets* /customizing qooxdoo and skinning existing
>            widgets./
>          o *API Browser*
>          o *Demo application browser*
>          o *qooxdoo libraries* /user contributed additions to qooxdoo/
>          o ...
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> Two things here;
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>   1. The first is that you're organizing this documentation from a
>      complete qooxdoo "noob's" point of view, by starting with the
>      points that are the most relevant for them. So the concept of the
>      wiki documentation overview page would be Novice -> Expert as you
>      move down the page.
>   2. The second is that I think that you have a good deal of this
>      information already. It needs to be updated for qooxdoo 0.8
>      (obviously) and some more in depth "How to do things" articles,
>      that cover both the basics and in-depth details for more advanced
>      users.
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> Just my 2 cents as a qooxdoo noob myself :-) .
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> Cheers,
> -Chris
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