Internet

Phil Bull philbull at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 20:15:10 UTC 2007


Hi Dougie,

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:02 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> I've tried it both ways - as a flat connecting.xml file and one that splits 
> off to basics.xml wireless.xml, adsl.xml and modem.xml.
> 
> The flat file looks huge and frankly quite daunting - personally I prefer 
> splitting it - it looks much less crowded and I seem to have (somehow) 
> managed to avoid any redundancy. From internet.xml we have:
> 
> internet
>         connecting
>                     basics
>                     wireless
>                     adsl
>                     modem
> 
> The only redundancy at the moment is in the troubleshooting, but that said I 
> haven't gone throught the original section yet - I was hoping to get that 
> done tonight.
> 
> Like you say - its where users expect to find it - looking at the majority 
> of postings on the forum, people tend to say "can't get wireless to work" 
> rather than "can't connect" so this way we are using the sections as a guide 
> in themselves pointing the user to the correct page - keeping the searching 
> to a minimum.

Could you attach a patch which does things in the way which you think is
best? I can't really see any massive problems with dividing it up into
more files as long as the division is transparent to the user (of
course, I may be wrong).

Thanks for all of your work on this,

Phil

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