[Kde-pim] KDE Addressbook on an Appliance

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010, um 21:44:39 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > On Wednesday 05 May 2010, upscope wrote:
> > > I have to agree with you, this new product is impossible to
> > > figure out from the documentation.
> > 
> > Documentation is our weak spot. Developers are very bad at writing
> > user documentation. Help is very much appreciated.
> 
> Sigh, developers don't need to write a documentation, but they have
> to provide facts for people writing them.

Even providing facts is difficult for developers because they assume 
that you know most of the facts already. :-)


> Can you imagine how time consuming it is for doc people to find out
> all these issues and the ways to handle them?

Yes, I can imagine.


> It is not sufficient to write a brilliant software, you also have to
> ensure that Joe User gets all necessary information to use the
> software or to migrate his data successfully to a new system.
> 
> Sorry for the rant, but there is a draft for a new kaddressbook
> (converted and modified from a pimsters blog into docbook) in kde's
> svn since a few month's, I asked more than twice for facts wrt
> migration/importing of old data... to finish that and make it
> usable.
> 
> My time is limited as yours, so I switched to other doc/l10n/i18n
> tasks in kde meanwhile...

Quite understandable. I wonder whether the people at KDAB write decent 
user documentation for their enterprise version of KDE PIM. It's 
probably in German, but I guess that wouldn't be much of a problem.


Regards,
Ingo
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