Short-n-sweet

[Mads Peter Rommedahl]

Generally, it'd be cool if we had two solutions in two different sections of
the same page: A CLI-one which has the "run this simple command"-solution
and a GUI-one which guides you through GNOME - maybe with pictures to help.

I'd be happy to work on this - again, only when I find the time, as I'm
currently about to graduate, and moving away from home, so not much spare
time on my hands :)

Mads Peter Rommedahl

2007/10/23, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net>:
>
>
> > I am not sure how 'big' of a problem this is because I have not read
> 100%
> > of all
> > the ubuntu doc pages.  in fact, good chance it is close to 1%.  but one
> > thing
> > that I have seen enough to be bothered: solutions that are overwhelming
> > and
> > probably scare away the typical 'happy user.'
> >
> > In general, I am annoyed anytime a solution involves "run this simple
> > command"
> > because there is a huge population of users that do not find anything in
> a
> > shell
> > "simple."  I am not in that population, but I know people who are, and
> so
> > if the
> > solution can be done using Ubuntu's GUI, I am extra annoyed on behalf of
> > them.
> >
> > However, sometimes there is a place for both the simple gui and the
> > command line
> > solutions when there are various solutions that give various levels of
> > results.
> >
> > For instance: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft  When
> > Sharon
> > asked "what would it take for me to run WoW on Linux?" I went in search
> of
> > what
> > it would take.  My initial thoughts were "more trouble that you are
> going
> > to
> > want to deal with' until I bothered to just fumble though it.  turns out
> > "install wine, install wow" is about it.  I can see why people would
> want
> > to do
> > quite a bit more, but I would like to see the "easy way" somehow
> > segregated so
> > that happy users don't initially get exposed to the "run this simple
> > command" way.
> >
> > Sooo..... anyone have any good ideas on how to address this?
> >
> > Carl K
> >
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>
> I would echo the hpe that we can eliminate the "run this simple command"
> from our documents.  might be a good task for some people who are looking
> fo a job
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> Jonathan Jesse
>
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