Plasma documentation

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Fri Jun 13 15:24:18 CEST 2008


On Thursday 12 June 2008 14:31:19 you wrote:
> I found finding plasma documentation to be grating and painful.
>
the pages at api.kde.org work.
the other pages are not within my domain of responsibility.
and I'm not crazy about the tone of this message, please
try to be nicer.

> we'll start with the 404's:
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdebase-workspace-apidocs/
> http://plasma.kde.org/
> both point to plasma api documentation at:
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdebase-workspace-apidocs/libs/plasma/html/index
>.html which 404s
>
> the working link would be to:
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/lib/plasma/html/index.html
>
> further:
> http://plasma.kde.org/
>
> is a dis-service to plasma, as it ratio of "filler" pages to useful content
> is dangerously high.  as a developer, trying to find anything interesting
> useful or direct on that page was maddeningly frustrating.  its all fluff
> text.  finding the wiki page (that has some information) is non-obvious.
>
> please try harder to maintain consistency.  kde has wonderful technology
> but it will never be adapted if i have to try three different places to
> find a working api docs link.
>
> (note: these problems are prsent on 4.0 as well)
>
> rektide



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