[Qgis-community-team] Help and manual

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Paolo,

I think it would make sense to separate the qgis manual and the application
help in SEXTANTE, as suggested in my previous email, because 

a) as you mentioned, the structure is different and maybe not well usable
   within a user manual
b) the amount of "help" pages for hundreds of integrated application modules
   is too much for the manual, which already has about 250 pages.

Apart from that I like the current situation/idea, having the module help
directly integrated into a help tab for each module, rather than opening
another browser tab.

Regards
Otto

Am Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:41:52 +0200
schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:

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> Hi all.
> Maybe I'm missing something here, so I apologize beforehand. I think we
> could improve the general situation with documentation and help. The
> application is growing a lot, and it is proving very difficult to maintain
> and translate all this material. I know the style of a manual can be
> different from what one could expect from an Help button, but I believe
> the differences can be rather minor, and the advantages are huge. This
> would also solve the issue from where I started, i.e. sextante help. In
> short, I suggest to:
> * remove the current Help content
> * point the help button to the relevant page of the manual
> * distribute the manual together with qgis
> * remove the tab Help from sextante algs
> * add an Help button, as with any other dialog of the app.
> All the best.
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> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia