Using userbase for manuals

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday, 1. July 2012 10:22:41 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 1. Juli 2012, 09:21:08 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > El Diumenge, 1 de juliol de 2012, a les 08:02:28, Boudewijn Rempt va
> 
> escriure:
> > > In any case, Ingo Malchow said in his blog
> > > (http://blog.neverendingo.de/?p=125)
> > > 
> > > "We have a great userbase.kde.org but developers don’t use it that
> > > much, nor is there any links from applications towards Userbase."
> > > 
> > > Well, actually we have. I replaced the offline help documentation in
> > > Krita with a link to the manual on userbase. I have done this for two
> > > reasons:
> > > 
> > > * I couldn't maintain the offline manual anyway after the change to 2.0
> > > * this way the user gets sent right to the place where they can
> > > contribute to the manual (and I've got users contributing to it now)
> > > 
> > > I'm not concerned that users cannot access the help when they are
> > > off-line.
> > > That's a vanishingly rare situation these days
> > 
> > I disagree, as a matter of fact, I don't have internet connection in the
> > room in my hostel, so if i had a need to use krita I'd need to read its
> > manual (since my painting/drawing skills are null) and i'd be not happy
> > to discover I can't read the manual.
> 
> +1
> 
> There are lot of nice places on this planet where there is no (good or
> cheap) internet connection. Which is fine in one way (gives you a break
> without needing to find excuses :) ) but bad for dependency on on-line
> stuff.

well, I more or less never use the user manuals.
If they were online in a wiki, I suspect they might be more complete and more 
current.

So, I'm for making it online.
And then this strange help application wouldn't pop up, but just a browser...

Alex