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