Revamping the help system

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at myrealbox.com
Sun Jun 25 10:30:42 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 21:59 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> ... 
> I realised that we can't have a very good discussion about this without
> seeing what the idea is from a concrete point of view, so I started
> drumming up some kind of a mockup about my proposal.
> 
> I've uploaded it to trunk/ubuntu/index-test/C
> 
> Have a look at it in yelp and see what you think. I've included some
> comments in index.xml about what I envisage would make up the content of
> each section.
> ...

Excellent!

Unfortunately most people won't read through a long list of categories
when they can search instead (and by Edgy they will be able to search
and get pretty decent results), so the list of topics will need to be
very short and scannable to be useful. Preliminary diff attached, though
it's just a start.

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