Why Two sets of Documentation?

[David T.]

Derek--

That sounds like a nice idea. But I re-state that having the context help packaged separately from the application is a little wacky to me--and if you create links from context help into the concepts guide, the same point would apply to the Concepts guide (just one layer removed).

Is there some way to incorporate the context help directly into the main Gnucash application, so that users would at least get that just-the-facts kind of help from the get-go? 

David

--- On Wed, 6/2/10, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Why Two sets of Documentation?
> To: "Josh Sled" <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> Cc: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 7:38 AM
> Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> writes:
> 
> > "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> >> From my (limited) perspective, I see very little
> substantive difference between the two sets. Most times, the
> Tutorial guide has better information to my way of looking
> at it. 
> >
> > There is no good reason for two documents.  They
> should be combined,
> > focused on concepts rather than a recitation of the
> toolbar buttons and
> > menu items.
> 
> Well, I think it's useful to have context-sensitive help
> where you can
> ask for help based on the page you're viewing and get docs
> on what the
> various menu items do.
> 
> Is it possible to create a context-sensitive
> what-each-menu-option-does
> set of links into the concepts guide?
> 
> -derek
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