Re: Does Linux have a help file SDK

llothar schrieb:
But then Linux would finally reach the user ergonomie status of a
Windows 98 application.

Yeah. Hundreds of context help sites with a content like that:
"
Open Document
=============
Opens a Document. Choose a Document file from the list to open it.
"

Wow. Praise to the Lord of the Obvious! No information about border
conditions (which files are displayed, is there a way to display *all*
files etc. etc.). That's symptomatic for context help of nearly all
applications on MS-Windows (with the notable exeception of MS-Office, but
*not* MS-Windows itself!)

In the meantime, these efforts in conditioning users to avoid context help
has given a whole industry of book and magazine publishers a real boom.

Context help is a fruitless effort. Just write a *manual*, which covers all
topics in a work-flow oriented fashion, not shattered into tiny information
bits -- noone really reads the latter one.

Kind regards

Jan



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