25 Feb
2012
25 Feb
'12
12:06 p.m.
Darrell
Re your first paragraph...
I don't consider these "help documents" I consider this an image
marketing effort to attract "new" people and that the page should
reflect that. The site would provide scripts for copying or
downloading and a place for "anyone" not just Trinity users to submit
and download scripts. It would be a Trinity service to all Linux
users.
If you want to convert the scripts that are contributed into help
documents and use/store/display them elsewhere that is fine--but I am
not volunteering for that part of the job--only for managing the web
page that the "clients" interact with.
By delivery I assume that you are referring to how the visitor can
download the script. I want HTML pages which they can copy and paste
the scripts from, but in many cases the scripts might be rather large
for this and we might have to consider download links. I do not think
that the ability for "clients" to download the entire script
collection is a good idea. If nothing else it would lower the hits on
the site dramatically.
"Submitted tips" This might be part of the second, separate page I
suggested, on modifying the appearance of Trinity apps, but not this
one which is only about scripts.
Re your second paragraph:
Again, IF this is displayed "only" as help files that are part of the
Trinity documentation, instead of useful information supplied by
Trinity Desktop to everyone, on an interactive site--I believe you
would lose a large part of the "image recognition" factor that is the
prime intent here (at least to me).
I think my and your goals are completely different here--not that they
can not be merged and/or feed each other--but I think they should be
two separate entities, managed by two different people.
On the other side. I think that something like what you are talking
about for Trinity specific tips or application
modification/enhancement is a very good idea.
Keith
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--
The US spends more money per person on health care than any other
country--BUT--ranks only 42nd in life expectancy as of 2007. Twenty
five years ago it ranked 11th.
Why is the country with the highest standard of living in the world
falling rapidly and dramatically behind the rest of the world?
Why is the cost of this "standard of living", poor health and high
levels of indoor pollution, noise, crime and stress?
I say it's the government using fear to control the population and
regulate the food industry, health industry and to dumb down the
population through the educational system.
Is it worth it? Is living high worth dying young and having a life of
miserable health quality while living in constant fear?
Keith W Daniels - 2012
I have a
marketing/advertising background. The
following suggestion is primarily aimed at increasing the name recognition of
"Trinity Desktop" but should have other useful side effects as well.
My idea is to start a "Trinity Desktop scripts" webpage or
forum containing user submitted scripts. This should be
interactive and
monitored so I think something like a forum would be the
best idea.
The site/page would be based around the concept of "Useful
scripts
that can help you to learn scripting as well". It
would include
scripts that could be used from Konsole or from inside Kate
or Konqueror (which sometimes have to be structured differently
than standard scripts). Information on how to use scripts inside
Kate and Konqueror would also be available.
To have a script accepted, a vote or committee approval
would be
needed. Besides being useful (either in actual use or
in learning to
script) the script would have to be heavily documented by
the writer
so that the "what" and "why" of the script could be
understood by
users not familiar with scripting (the majority of them).
Thoughts?
I like the idea.
Another useful page/site similar in effect to the
above
would be one that specialized post and information on how to modify the
appearance and function of menus, toolbars, popups, etc. for Trinity
Desktop programs.
I like the idea. For delivery I prefer to see all of the help documents available online
at the web site or wiki as HTML files. When users submit tips we update the appropriate
help file DocBook source. The respective HTML file gets regenerated nightly and becomes an
updated live web page within 24 hours.
That way we keep our help files current and treat them as living documents. By doing that
we keep the information contained to a single source and don't have to duplicate our
efforts.
With all of the help files in DocBook format, we can revise certain files into smaller
bite size files, which then can be sourced into other DocBook files to form a complete
document.
Darrell
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