[Kde-pim] KMail Handbook

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Manfred wrote:
> I'd like to point your attention to the following page:
>
> https://techbase.kde.org/Talk:Projects/Documentation/KDE4/kdepim/kmai
>l
>
> I have set up this (and others will follow) page to document the
> progress of the handbook and intend to use the discussion pages as
> scrapbooks to collect ideas and requests for what and how be in it,
> or how it can be improved.
>
> So please express your ideas so that I don't have to wast too much
> time with wrong attempts and don't get demotivated too soon :-)

I suggest to also send a message to the kdepim-users mailing list.


> What I'm trying to do at the moment is to create a useful sequence of
> chapters and sections that concentrate on tasks rather than features.
>
> - Beginners and intermediate tasks
> - Advanced KMail with all the bells and whistles

I like this.


> And only when that is done I feel like I want to concentrate on the
> (boring) documentation of the ui as an advanced index that helps to
> find out what to actually do with it, like linking to the appropriate
> beginners, intermediate or advanced task.

Sound good.


> The biggest pain for an interested user is to see that there's a lot
> more below the surface and not knowing how to actually apply the
> thing. That at least reflects my own experience with software
> documentation.
>
> But there's one more thing. If I look at KMails web page I feel like
> that one needs a lot of love too. Well this more or less applies to
> the kdepim website as a whole. Who can I contact or wants to contact
> me so that I can help update this stuff as well as I go along?

The plan with the kdepim website is to move it to userbase.kde.org. I 
suggest to talk to Anne (Anne Wilson, cannewilson at googlemail dot 
com) about this. She has already done some work on this (cf. [1]).


Regards,
Ingo

[1] http://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Office#Kontact
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