I "like" Mandriva's attitude (Fwd: Re: well-known user folders, a proposal)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Friday 23 February 2007 02:41, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On February 22, 2007, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > This is free software, so no
>
> that is an excuse of a reason. it's not like all non-free software houses
> are great in this regard, and a free software group can be good at it too.

Free or non-free isn't the problem, it amounts to how easy it is to get the 
info you need. Call it user-friendliness at the documentation level :-). 
That's a pretty tough problem and I won't claim to have all the solutions 
here. Trolltech is a very good example to follow, though.

> what would make it less complicated for you?

This guide 
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/userguide/kde-for-administrators.html 
(which you've just said you didn't know about - it's fair to expect the 
mandriva grunt working on KDE integration won't either) is a very good start. 
It just needs to be fleshed out and published more prominently. A doc.kde.org 
site with a mainpage being a quick roadmap to user/admin/dev docs would be 
great. Then advertise it as a single entry-point for all KDE help.

-- 
Guillaume.
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