[Trisquel-devel] We need an index for Trisquel documentation, i think.

[hound at lavabit.com]

> To Hound:
>
> I have adopted a compromise to your index proposal at
> http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/manuals. What do you think?
>
> Our documentation, to be blunt, should not assume the user is an IDIOT, or
> just started using a computer last week. The Trisquel user will (not
> might, or probably, but WILL) know where the "Internet button" is, will
> know that inserting a DVD and selecting "movie player" will inevitably
> result in being able to watch the movie on that DVD, will know that the
> "OpenOffice Writer" located in his Main Menu is nothing short of the libre
> equivalent to M$ Word. And if he does want in-depth documentation for any
> of those programs, they're already available at the press of an F1 key.
> But perhaps he's not a particularly advanced user and won't know what a
> "terminal" is and how to find it, or what graphics card to buy so his new
> laptop will work with a fully-free system, or how to edit his .mp3 tags
> (because maybe he's only ever used iTunes to do that). Which is why we DO
> have manuals for those things.
>
> *end of rant*
>
> Some of the manuals in that table of contents are either partially or
> totally incomplete. That should keep you busy, Hound. ;-)
>
> --AndrewT
>

Do not know, or know very little, using a PC is not being an idiot.

Yesterday I been talking (in the spanish channel) with quidam and aklis
(more with aklis) about the need for an index, not for the already
existent documentation, but for some more easy topics, for a manual that
is comprehensible to any user of pcs.

In my experience one manual like that its necessary if we want to get out
Trisquel beyond of the scene "linux" and Ubuntu. I do not want people,
which gave him a disk or installed Trisquel, - that is people who do not
even know what is "linux" - go to Ubuntu help for know how their new
system works.

Anyway, I think aklis and quidam agreed, so that's the reason why I added
that the index, otherwise I would have continued trying to convince them
:)

Saludos!