Quickguide and Desktop Guide

[Venkat Raghavan]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 03:05, Matthew East wrote:
> Venkat Raghavan <venkatraghavan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 01:18, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:00, Venkat Raghavan wrote:
> > > > The Quickguide is a pretty good document, which deals with more basic
> > > > stuff than the Desktop Guide (IMO). However, I have issues with
> > > > shipping both guides
> > > >
> > > > Issues:
> > > > * Unfortunately there is a lot of overlapping material, especially in
> > > > the applications section.
> > > > *  Presenting two sets of documents to the users may confusing (more
> > > > so with overlapping material)
> > > >
> > > > It think it is much better for us to ship one document, and I am
> > > > proposing that both be integrated.
>
> I agree that it will probably be less confusing to ship one document.
>
> > I think the default theme has changed in Kubuntu, and is quite different
> > from the one in the screenshots. Does that mean that we have to update
> > all the screenshots in the guide?
>
> Yes, or alternatively not use them. The desktop guide is fairly complete
> already, as far as I can see, so any integration you do is a bonus, rather
> than a necessity, in my opinion. It's obviously hard to do a large scale
> integration of two documents so close to a freeze.
>
> Matt
Having actually though about the issue, it is a lot of work. Unless there is a 
UI Freeze, too much is  bound to change. Work on merging them will become 
useless there is a UI freeze. 

Maybe i will just focus on getting everything currently in the Desktop Guide 
in order. 

Regards,
Venkat
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