Re: faq.xml.qna

David Malcolm <[email protected]> Fri, 06 May 2005 15:40:55 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.editors.conglomerate.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 21:34 +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:
> Le 27 avr. 2005 à 21:04, Sean Wheller a écrit :
> 
> > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:13, David Malcolm wrote:
> >>> Question, do we want FAQ in the user manual? It is not customary at
> >>> GNOME.
> The problem I reported was that first the help menu does not work on  
> Mac, not related to conglomerate, but to the gnome help which has  
> hard-coded the path, hence there is no possibility to access the  
> files. Second that nobody knows that there is a faq, hence there is  
> no chance that the user sees it. That's why I suggested to  
> incorporate it in the faq and supplied a working patch for it, which  
> was rejected for reasons I cannot understand. Then a new not working  
> patch was supplied and accepted for reasons I cannot understand either.
> 
> So that now the faq is still outside of the manual, which was not the  
> goal and did not compile since it relies on a local stylesheet.
> 
> So that now I cannot even compile conglomerate, unless I supply  
> another patch, will will presumably also be rejected, etc.

What compilation error are you getting?  Let's fix that first.

> 
> Feel like I don't have fun to work like this. Even less be flamed by  
> people who did not even try the patches, before rejected them.

NO FLAMES PLEASE!

I'm thinking that perhaps the FAQ should be on the website; the app
should ship with the manual.  Perhaps we could have a menu item for the
FAQ which takes you to that part of the website?

I'm not sure about this though.