[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1072: Remove QGIS guide docs

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 02/02/2013 09:00 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 06:05 PM, OSGeo wrote:
>> #1072: Remove QGIS guide docs
>> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>>   Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo@…
>>       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new
>>   Priority:  minor     |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive7.0
>> Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:  qgis, 7.0
>> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Comment(by hamish):
>>
>>   I rather disagree, and propose that they be re-enabled in the QGIS
>>   quickstart for 6.5.
>>
>>
>>   The QGIS user guide (11mb) is part of the help text for the program and
>>   therefore hold pride of place along side the executable binary. It's a
>>   complete no brainer AFAIAC.
>>
>>
>>   The Gentle Guide to GIS (4.7mb) is a wonderful eBook for GIS beginners (I
>>   hadn't known about it before now), starting QGIS, and is a great intro to
>>   what you'll find in many of the projects on the disc. We should have more
>>   things like this on the live DVD, and take pains to promote them further.
>>   While not specifically a dependency of any software project on the disc,
>>   either is the "getting started with ubuntu" or OGC overview docs, and yet
>>   I think we'll all agree that it is useful for them to be there.
>>
>>
>>   best,
>>   Hamish
>>
> I agree with Hamish. There is a little or no in app help in QGIS right
> now, it's all in the manual (eventually they will actually be linked
> directly).
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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I think QGIS manual is a document of very high quality and since QGIS is 
one of the most popular application on the disk we could provide those 
11mb for it.

Cheers,
Angelos

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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