Amarok Quick Guide

[Willem Ferguson]

Dear Amarockers,

The section on 'Starting Amarok' currently contains instruction specific 
to KDE/Kubuntu. If we wish that Amarok becomes an opensource contender 
for software like iTunes, then this section needs to be generic for 
other OSs/user interfaces such as Gnome, Mac as well as Windows.  While 
I understand and respect the emphasis on KDE, the software is not 
intended only for use within the KDE environment and this needs to be 
solidly reflected in the introduction, especially in any section that 
deals with 'Starting Amarok'.

Secondly, the screen shots currently in the userbase are pretty small 
and in may cases illegible. I went to great trouble to optimise the 
screen shots in the original Google doc in terms of size and legibility 
while minimising clutter in the doc. For instance, I inserted some split 
screen shots (two screens shots combined into a single figure) in order 
to use the page width efficiently. For an an introductory user guide, it 
is not useful to have to double-click a screen shot to see it in legible 
format. It is a a user-UNfriendly approach. The screen shots need to be 
prepared in an appropriate size to be immediately read and understood by 
any person who reads the doc. Many users are likely to be newbies, not 
neccesarily conversant with KDE. User friendliness of the Quick Guide is 
crucial for encouraging a broad acceptance of Amarok.

Thirdly, versioning needs to implemented on the document being developed 
on the Quick Guide in the UserBase. I suggest a versioning convention 
that follows the current version of Amarok. This will reduce confusion 
later when later versions of Amarok is released and that would need to 
be supported by a Quick Guide.

Kind regards,
Willem Ferguson