Documentation and Use it (Re: [compiz] New top menu item)

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Tue Nov 28 07:28:36 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 13:24 +0200, Tuukka Hastrup wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > David, can we get a "Documentation" item in the main menu leading to a new 
> > documentation page? I'd like to add a Howto and some other info for end users 
> > but none of the 4 main menu pages seem appropriate for that. I didn't see a 
> > way to add a menu item through the wiki, so I think you need to do that.
> 
> I hope no-one minds I did the wiki-way and added a normal link to 
> "Instructions" for now. There was a proposal for "Use it" earlier, I think 
> these two can be merged into one top-level link as we're talking about 
> end-user documentation. End-users are going to need instructions to know 
> they want to install any plug-ins or extras anyway and to know how. The 
> top-level "Download" page should probably include links to any plug-in 
> page and extras page as well.

A "Use It" top menu item sounds good, I'll add it as soon as I figured
out how to add new navigation links.

> 
> Anyone, please let me know if this is not a good idea. I see one argument 
> for the title "Use it" is that it's short and an imperative. Then again, 
> it doesn't give a lot of idea on what kind of content to expect there. 
> What about "Learn", is that too boring? "Master it" or whatever the 
> idiomatic English expression is?
> 
> In any case, you can now go to the "Instructions" page and add a link to 
> your how-to or start a plug-in catalog etc.
> 

-David



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