Sec: Unclassified RE: Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide Feedback

[Stoffers, Robert LAC]

Hi matt,

I like your proposed changes, they make the Desktop Guide a little more clearer and easier to navigate. I particularly like your suggestion of moving Hardware to its own chapter, it looked a little out of place for a topic that has the potential to be quite large in the original outline. 

Software management is a curly one; its something you really have to know before much of the rest of the guide is useful. I'm not sure which way I'd like to swing with this, perhaps others on the list can offer their suggestions and convince me either way.

The Tips and Tricks section is a left over from the Breezy Starter Guide, I've been working on a few ways of incorporating the information into the rest of the guide. At the moment its just a catch all for misc info, it will probably not end up in the finished product.

I have made a few tweaks since this thread started as you noticed too.

Rob


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[mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Matthew East
Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 8:02
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Subject: Re: Sec: Unclassified RE: Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide Feedback


On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 11:03 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:21 +1000, Stoffers, Robert LAC wrote:

> I think my point is more basic than this: the three top levels
> inherently overlap because of their nature - some common tasks involve
> configuring your system. I think we should search for a more mutually
> exclusive structure. When I have a bit more time I'll make some
> suggestions on the relevant wiki page. I don't think we have to limit
> things to 3 top level categories, we can have more.

I had another look at the Desktop Guide, and found that the structure is
pretty spot on, in my opinion. I still think that things can be made
easier to find: 3 (or 4) top level categories mean that users have to
click more to find things, and where the sections are very broad, this
can make it difficult for the user to find stuff. So I tweaked around
with the structure and came up with:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopGuideProposal?action=show

What do people think?

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