Menus revisited

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On 16 Jan, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Bart Vullings (OpsVentus) wrote:
> ...
> The biggest problem, I think, is that there's no help to tell people 
> what to find where in the menu's.
> I like the new help, but it crashed 3 times when I was just looking 
> around a bit. And what did I find: terminal command's! That's not what 
> should be in an help! users who seek help should be told how to use 
> the GUI. If they can only get help for the terminal THAT WILL frighten 
> them away.

Usability tests show that people who use help are usually experts. 
<http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/29/497861.aspx> So 
including Terminal instructions in the help isn't so bad, if there's no 
GUI way of doing the same thing.

> ...
> So I say:keep the menu the way it is, but start on a disent 
> help/documentation where to find what.
> ...

Suggestions for improving the help belong on the ubuntu-doc list.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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