Ubuntu Help compared with other help systems

[Dan McGarry]

Dean Sas wrote:
> 
>>Sorry if this came across in a ranty sort of tone. It was meant most
>>pleasantly. I think we have some excellent docs for Ubuntu, but it
>>really does matter how we present it. I don't think it'll help turning
>>it into the task-centered help which other help pages use - those are
>>usually equally confusing. To me, a quality search function is essential.
> 
> The version in Dapper allows you to search, however it pulls up all
> those nasty man pages in the results.

Sorry, but what exactly is wrong? Is it that they're mixed up 
indiscriminately with other results? They're not clearly man pages (or, 
for that matter, are *too* clearly man pages)? Or is the implication 
that man pages have no place in documentation search results?

If that last statement is true, perhaps you could suggest some 
reasonable scenarios in which man pages would/would not be useful in 
search results.

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Dan McGarry	it.psl at fsp.org.vu

IT Consultant
Community Communications Project