[Libreoffice] LibreOffice WikiHelp

[Alexander Thurgood]

Hi Miklos,


Le 07/12/10 22:21, Miklos Vajna a écrit :
> 
> I must miss something really trivial, but I do not see where to start
> reading. :) The only way to find pages from the main page is to use the
> Random page or Recent changes feature.
> 
> Did I miss the point? :)
> 

No you didn't. In fact you are spot on. If I were to put myself in the
position of a first time user of LibO and was directed to that page, I
would literally say "you gotta be joking !". What use is an online help
system in a wiki that doesn't show index links to the main topics. This
is a minimum for any help system. As for the search engine, well, I've
never been very impressed with most of the search engines used in
default wiki implementations.

The user must be given the possibility to browse through the pages of
help via links that appear, as they did in the "inline" help system of
OOo, otherwise as far as I'm concerned it is absolutely useless. If and
when the user comes across a topic for which they know the keyword to
search for, then they could of course use the search engine to enhance
their browsing experience, but IMHO you can not forego the immediate
visual need of a user. An example to look to in this case would be the
API documentation of OOo, yes, you can search for the terms using the
search engine that Collabnet provided, but you can also drill down via
links through the various API descriptions.


Whilst I appreciate that it must have taken a lot of work to get this up
onto the wiki, IMHO the visual accessibility of the information really
needs to be addressed.


Alex