License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide (Re: Incorporating

[karderio]

Hi :o)

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 08:04 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:39 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> >
> > --- Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >> (b) people browsing help are looking for answers to questions (a
> >>     relative strength of the Ubuntu Desktop Guide), not in "manuals"
> >>     or "guides" as such.
> >
> > True.
> > But you also have to actually explain the basics. I mean the stuff 
> > that most of us reading this take for granted. Just last week I saw a 
> > friend scrolling down a long web page -- to advance by a screen's 
> > worth of
> > text, he clicked the 'down' scrollbar button repeatedly. I think he 
> > had no idea that you could hold it down. The same goes for things like 
> > double-clicking to select whole words, or the fact that copy-paste 
> > works between applications (examples off the top of my head that I've 
> > seen users astounded to learn of). I see a need for a fairly large 
> > chunk of the user guide explaining basic GUI concepts like this --
> 
> Realistically, I think few people would learn these things from an 
> on-screen page or manual even if it existed. People would learn them 
> either from other people (like yourself), or from an interactive 
> tutorial program like Windows 3 and Mac System 7 used to have.
> <http://guidebookgallery.org/tutorials>

So that's what we need then !! I'm sure a comprehensive manual on user
interaction could be of use to some however. Hey, I'm sure I could pick
up a thing or two from one, I've never sat through an interactive
tutorial in my life though ;)

Love, Karderio.