more, Ubiquity Slideshow for Ubuntu

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi,

2009/6/17 mac_v <drkvi-a at yahoo.com>:
> You are looking at this the wrong way...

There is no "wrong way", especially when none of us have any evidence
either way - its entirely conjecture.

> Why are they checking google? since the documentation is not very
> hepful. Rather than saying someone else is doing our job well, I think
> we need to Be better at helping the user rather than google....
>
> I do understand that the slideshow doesnt need to be a help system, But
> needs to point to the documentation . And the documentation needs to be
> done better.

OK I'm going to disengage from this discussion now because I feel no
need to have several years worth of my time that could have been spent
with my family described as "not very helpful" and "needs to be done
better".  I'm open to suggestion and constructive criticism but I've
no intention to engage in insults.

I wish you all the best in your endeavours but I think its bad taste
to tell a group its work is not good enough while not proffering any
constructive criticism as to why.

>> We are making a HUGE assumption here about our user base.  Unfortunately
>> I would bet 90% don't use the help system they turn to Google instead.
>> The same is going to happen with this slideshow, most will skip, most
>> will never use and most will turn to Google if they have any problems.
>>
>>
>
> You are right the XP slideshow is very irritating, that is because, as
> someone has already pointed it out, it takes the tone of a salesman.
>
> We need to provide a slideshow which is both attractive and informative
> and creates interest in the user to actually sit through the whole process.

This is the second time you've answered something I've said with an
answer to someone else's question.  I didn't say it was irritating
Johnathon did.  For the record I'm in agreement with him.

> Offtopic:
> I'm not sure if this is possible, but would it be possible to provide
> the documentation online too in the same structure and format as the one
> built into the system, apart from the wiki, and maybe the slideshow
> could point here rather than the forums? Why this would be nice is, we
> could use the http://start.ubuntu.com/9.10/, to search this
> documentation first.

What?! They're built from the same XML - they ARE the same structure!

Regards,

Dougie Richardson
http://www.lynxworks.eu/
dougierichardson at ubuntu.com