Gents (mdke / mpt), It's fine with me to take the changes out of the documentation, but let's consider the following:
Some of the applications in question have online / internet based help, like Pidgin, which is fine if you have an internet connection to view the help, but absolutely useless if you don't have access to the net. In Africa, this is a reality unlike first and second world countries. I have viewed Ekiga & Liferea's documentation, which is included with the app, and they are good doc's covering those items we have added to the Ubuntu docs, but still, Pidgin only has online help, and at that, is not the best. Should we then just, as suggested by mdke & mpt: 1) only leave a reference url, and leave those that can't use the online help in the dark or, 2) Leave the basic procedures for the apps as is and add a reference url to the apps help as well, 3) Get hold of the Pidgin chaps and ask them to beef up there documentation / include help documentation with the application. Interesting one, as I understand the concerns voiced / typed by both mpt & mdke, but there are those that got a Ubuntu cd somewhere and still don't have access to the internet... Thanks, Dawid On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:13 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Help on how to set up feeds in Liferea is already present in Liferea's > help. If you want to improve Liferea's help, that would be excellent > (for example, how to make Firefox's Subscribe button work with Liferea > is not at all obvious), but that's nothing to do with ubuntu-docs. > Information about setting up Pidgin should be in the help accessed from Pidgin's Help menu, which is not part of ubuntu-docs. Information about setting up an Ekiga account should be in the help accessed from Ekiga's Help menu, which is not part of ubuntu-docs. And so on. Putting this information in Ubuntu Help, rather than the program's own help, would make it unnecessarily difficult to find. (It would also limit its reach to Ubuntu users, when it would do more good if available to *all* users of that particular program). -- Thanks, Dawid van Wyngaard Wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dawid71 Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/~dawid-i-services/ IRC: raven on network irc.freenode.net Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP keys: B25232ED -- Instant Messaging Documentation: News Readers need more details https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129189 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
