My WineHQ menu structure proposal

Dimitrie O. Paun dpaun at rogers.com
Sun Nov 3 11:41:29 CST 2002


On November 3, 2002 12:26 pm, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> IMHO the CVS stuff should *only* be mentioned in the Wine User Guide (and
> the Developers Guide would explain the more advanced usage patterns).
> Then it'd be pretty easy to simply add a small "For CVS download of Wine
> source, see <Wine Users Guide link>".

Why in Wine User Guide? Ideally, users should not have to deal with CVS
at all. The *only* reason this is so it's that Wine is very immature,
and changes quickly. But once we reach a stable release, this should
hopefully change a little. When I open the user guide, I want it to small, 
and to the point -- it has to tell me the absolute minimum that I need to 
know to run the thing. Note: ideally, it should be so easy, and intuitive
to run Wine, that we should not need a Wine User Guide!

> Hmm, could someone yell "me!" when it comes to finding someone to
> mail a "this is it so far" status report to wine-devel ?
> I think it'd be good to have a mail describing the current agreement.

It will get done, give people a day, or two to comment on it. I'll
do it if need be, don't worry. But the point is well taken: summarizing
the results of such threads is very imporantant, as otherwise we loose
a lot of the good stuff hidden in the middle of long emails. This is
the very reason I sent in my proposal for the menu, as it was a kind
of summarization of the discussions we had around here.

-- 
Dimi.




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