On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Recently, several newbies had trouble finding the FAQ >> and were surprised to hear that it could be helpful. >> Perhaps if our packages added a "Wine FAQ" menu >> item, they'd have less trouble finding it. > > The FAQ is english only,
We could start translated versions. I think nobody's tried yet because it's intimidating. (I had one offer to translate it into spanish, not sure where that is.) > it's a web site (unlike all other documentation), Well, sure. That's so users can edit it. > and it contains a lot of unrelated information like > stuff for newer versions or other distros. I just looked, and I don't see a lot. (Mainly the two Apple entries.) That seems ok to me. > Ideally, of course, users shouldn't have to read anything before being > able to use Wine. Of course. But there will always be questions like "How do I run the apps I had installed in XP without reinstalling them?", and for those, we need to point the user to some documentation. > As an alternative, I suggest that near release time we consider forking > the FAQ, trimming all the unrelated stuff, polishing it up a bit, and > bundling that as proper documentation (including being indexed by > scrollkeeper and friends). That might be nice, but it's a heck of a lot of work, and the FAQ link is something that would be useful now. > Additionally, there are some other documents we should update first and > have them point to the Wine FAQ, most notably the pages on Wine in the > Ubuntu Wiki and the sticky threads at the top of the Ubuntu Wine forum. Why should we wait for that? - Dan