[Digikam-users] Users manual?

[DIL23]

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 17:14:26 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2010/1/5 Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd at comcast.net>:
> > I STRONGLY think links to immediately available documentation should be
> > visible in the main menu's Help item drop down or some other VISIBLE
> > space. When I recently installed Digikam on my Kubuntu 9.10 OS, it came
> > with NO help, no documentation a human being could easily find, and a
> > lot of frustration. All help links, context help, etc., led to "no
> > documentation available" messages.
>
> OK, i will said one time, no more. hare well : digiKam documentation
> is in a separate package because it's huge.
>
> one binary package, on documentation
>
> Go to package manage and enter digikam. look documentation package and
> install it. that all
>
> It certainly difficult to do for people who want to read some words.
>

and once you've installed the help docs you can access them from the command 
line or 'Run Command' by typing:

khelpcenter help:/digikam

....and I believe the Linux world is always looking for helpers - maybe you 
could help with the helpcenter/wiki or whatever when you get up to speed with 
Digikam ;-)

DIL23
:)

> > It took me close to 2 hours to find the solution to this problem. This
> > is NOT good customer relations.  It's been three days and I still pissed.
> >
> > I find this program to be quite interesting, and likely very useful to
> > me in the immediate future - BUT ONLY IF I CAN GET DOCUMENTATION ON ITS
> > FUNCTIONS WITHOUT CLEARING MY SCHEDULE AND JUMPING ONTO THREE FORUMS
> > (mild hyperbole there, but you get the idea) to find out where the stuff
> > is hiding and what I have to do to get it on my machine..
> >
> > I really do NOT want to hear why I had this experience. I'm not
> > interested. I don't care. I don't have time. I want to hear that it's
> > going to be fixed, that in the future I'm going to get a complete
> > program when I install digikam. A user interface that isn't rather easy
> > to get into or get figured out is a failure. Period. I'm far from
> > computer illiterate and I simply fell into a deep hole with my initial
> > installation of digikam.
>
> These words are unacceptable for me. i take A LOTS OF FREE TIME to
> develop, coordinate, contact people, fix bugs, implement new feature.
> An this is the same for all other people who work in digiKam project.
> This is open source world, not a software company.
>
> We are not payed for that. You want more service, you don't like my
> words : no problem, go back to windows or mac an give money as a
> customer...
>
> Gilles Caulier
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