Ubuntu Help compared with other help systems

[Dean Sas]

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Dan McGarry wrote:
> Dean Sas wrote:
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>>
>> 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.
> 

I just don't think manpages are useful for 90%+ of the population. To
use a manpage means you're going to have to drop to a terminal anyway,
so there's not that much point for it to show up in searches for techies
(perhaps unless they specifically ask for it). I can't think what usable
information man pages provide that'd be useful to a non techie, if we
ever have to rely on man pages to fix untechnical peoples problems we've
failed already.

dsas

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