[kde-doc-english] System Settings Categories" needs hyperlinks

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010, um 19:33:18 schrieb Yuri Chornoivan:
> написане Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:41:09 +0300, Burkhard Lück
> 
> <lueck at hube-lueck.de>:
> > Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010, um 20:25:36 schrieb Krzysztof Żelechowski:
> >> The page "System Settings Categories" [1] needs hyperlinks to the
> >> documentation of the configuration modules.  For example, Application
> >> Appearance [2].
> > 
> > The overview chapter of the systemsettings documentation was not written
> > with
> > the intention to give access to all modules doc, just to give a brief
> > overview
> > about the categories and the items.
> > 
> > Each modules doc is accessible mainly from the opened module itself, si
> > when
> > you get stuck about an option in a particular settings module, you can
> > get
> > some help.
> > 
> > But what you seem to have in mind is in my pov better suited for a
> > chapter
> > like "Customize you ..." with typical tasks in a user guide.
> > 
> > From a technical PoV adding links in the overview page is easy and won't
> > disturb the intended use case that much.
> > 
> > Let's see what other say about this.
> > 
> > Comments please.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Regretfully, it will be hard to map the whole System Settings modules
> structure to plain docbook list. It will also be hard to maintain the list
> taking into account custom modules (Synaptiks or kcm-touchpad) of
> distributions.
> 
Good catch, I completely overlooked this issue.

> It will be nice to have main modules overview (a short variablelist or so)
> in "Quick Start" or "User Guide", 

Yes.

> but we have no authors to write these
> docs for KDE 4.
> 
Any takers?

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Burkhard Lück