Amarok quick start guide

[Valorie Zimmerman]

I guess we are top-posting on this one; sorry! This is getting better
and better. I've found a few small errors and fixed them, tightened up
a few sentences, and added a couple of small bits I thought we were
missing.

Willem, you had the following questions near the top:

" 1. A lot depends on what topics are useful for a quick-start guide
and what may be too advanced, rather meant for a later more detailed
user manual."

I think what we have so far is good. Let's see what the developers think.

" 2. We need a decision on heading styles." I believe we leave this to
the Docbook coders.

" 3. Any standardisation with respect to screenshots in the document?"
Do you have reservations about any of the included screenies? They all
look good to me. Now is the time to speak up!

" 4. Does the Table of Contents link to separate pages for each topic
in a typical HTML-like style or is all the text in a single document?
- willemf" The Docbook coders will do the linking. GoogleDocs is a
struggle!

I think this is ready for a look-see by the developers, and it's
making me very happy. Abhi and Willem, such excellent work!

Valorie

PS: All the rest of you readers here -- please read through what we
have so far, and fix any errors you see.


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, abhishek rane <abhishekrane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22 June 2010 00:47, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi colleagues,
>>
>> I have inserted the missing album covers.
>>
>> Abhishek, please note:
>> We could also include the most common problem for ubuntu users  i.e
>> libxine1-ffmpeg
>> missing -Abhishek Rane 6/16/10 4:08 PM
>> Abhishek,
>>  Please write about 5-10 lines would you, please? What is the symptom if
>> Xine is missing and one starts Amarok 2.3? Cure? apt-get?? Any other
>> dependencies?
>>
>
> Done! Thanks for all the work you've put up,especially the screenshots.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Willem
>>
>> ======================================================================
>> Valorie wrote:
>>
>> I'm about half-way through, and I'm very impressed. There are a couple
>> of areas, which while I feel they are excellent, are too detailed for
>> a Quick Start guide.
>>
>> I'm sorry this has gotten side-tracked; I hope we can make a push to
>> finish this and hand it to the Docbook folks. For starters, I would
>> like to see all of the shots where there is an album cover *with* an
>> album cover. We need all those little spots of color to liven things
>> up.
>>
>> I love the tables with the icons! Quite excellent.
>>
>> I also love the section on iPods and other devices. I've not used an
>> iPod, so I really welcome this bit.
>>
>> Thanks so much, Willem. I see your note about font problems, but I'm
>> not seeing them.
>>
>> I'll look at all of this tomorrow in more detail, but I think we're
>> nearly there!
>>
>> Those of you on the list that haven't seen this yet, please take a
>> look at it. Looking at Abhi's links would be a good idea for everyone
>> also:
>>
>> "Please take a look at Openshot's manual,it could serve as a great
>> inspiration for writing this manual.Especially the Learn Openshot in 5
>> minutes section.
>> English http://www.openshotusers.com/help/en/
>> French  http://www.openshotusers.com/help/fr/
>> Spanish http://www.openshotusers.com/help/es/
>>
>> That 5 Minute section is exactly what I'd like to see, and I think we
>> are getting there. Ours needs to be more like 10 minutes, but that
>> organization is wonderful.

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