[Qgis-community-team] Help and manual

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Il 11/07/2013 11:02, Otto Dassau ha scritto:

> a) as you mentioned, the structure is different and maybe not well usable
>    within a user manual

In principle I agree, in practice I checked a few pages of the manual, and I did not
see them out of context as Help pages.

> b) the amount of "help" pages for hundreds of integrated application modules
>    is too much for the manual, which already has about 250 pages.

yes, I was suggesting to point only to the pages, as relevant for each dialog.

> 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.

agreed; this would hold true also for all Help pages. I think a more uniform approach
would be preferable.
my main concern, however, is the maintainability of the whole structure: if I'm not
wrong, the Help pages are currently out of sync with the app (and the manual).
of course, a mixed approach is also good, pointing to manual pages where appropriate,
and to specific Help pages when available.

All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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