<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE> Hi guys,                                    I am replying to all parties and offering some recomendations because i was lost for a month after buying "Ubuntu" on Ebay for a few bucks. I totally agree that the User documentation guide is very complicated and I was lost for three weeks before I found what I needed to fix a video problem I had. I am an average computer user and get lost if you go into complex programming. Anyway every time I try to get help I have to go to dozens of pages and hope I stumble onto what I need. I finally found what I needed in the "Fix Video resolutionHowto? section of the user documentation /community pages. My first problem was how did I get to those pages since I had to click on three different links to get to them after words I couldn't remember how I got to that section.. My recommendations are as follows. Since you have so much info and suggestions it is time to break up all your recommendations into two main categories one for novice or beginners and the other for advanced users. In the FixVideo resolutionHowto" section the suggestions made are a classic example of basic help and advanced help programming the basic help came with the "Xorg" Xserver which solved my Video problems. When I read the more advanced programming I was lost.  We need to divide our help guide into two main help sections. The example I just gave you in the FixresolutionHowto section is a good example of areas that need to be split up into Basic and Advanced.  Basic Help Installing and trouble shooting guide!  Advanced Help Installing" sections.  OR Basic Help troubleshooting ! Advanced Help troubleshooting!                                                 My second recommendation is a terminology page It would be nice if we had a A-Z listing of the most common words and the related words from other OS right next to them. This would help people changing over from Windows to Linux. you may have something like this already but I haven't found it yet! I really want to  make my Ubuntu/linux OS work as i can't stand the outragious costs of Windows. Geez how many more billions of dollars do thesse people need! Anyway please reply to my suggestions. Thanks for the awesome hard work eevryone is doing to make these OS easier. </DIV> Michael Luyando <DIV></DIV>mluyando@msn.com <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> <DIV></DIV>From:  ubuntu-desktop-request@lists.ubuntu.com Reply-To:  ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com To:  ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com Subject:  ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 13, Issue 17 Date:  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:00:34 +0100 Send ubuntu-desktop mailing list submissions to ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-desktop-request@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-desktop-owner@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-desktop digest..." Today's Topics:     1. [Fwd: the Ubuntu help menu] (Matthew East) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:32:13 +0100 From: Matthew East <mdke@ubuntu.com> Subject: [Fwd: the Ubuntu help menu] To: ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: <ea5dhs$k5f$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I realised that I should have cross posted this to the desktop list too, no doubt lots of people who follow that list will have views about how best to make the system documentation usable and discoverable. All feedback welcome! Matt - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: the Ubuntu help menu Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:20:29 +0100 From: Matthew East <mdke@ubuntu.com> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.ubuntu.sounder I recently blogged about the Ubuntu help menu, and the documentation team has been discussing it for some time. I'd be interested in people's views. We're quite aware that the current system documentation is not very widely used, and we're looking at ways to improve it. Any suggestions or comments are welcome! http://www.mdke.org/blog/HelpMenu.html Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFExjl9tSaF0w5rBv8RAof4AJ9ZxsfFRGeg7r8E/NWWgqLuVubLTgCfVIz5 qcnnN654r/ZvvFLFswnPtmA= =gDMw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop End of ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 13, Issue 17 ********************************************** </BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>