Does Linux Only Support Blocking Mode of Using Sound Card
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:02:33 -0000, Grant Edwards staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Installs of either KDE or GNOME put their programs under categories like "Internet", "Graphics", "Multimedia", "Utilities", etcetera in the K menu or foot menu. Users are supposed to figure out which category their task belongs in and look for something that resembles what they need in that category.0 This may not be the way *you* want to do things, but it's a *familiar* way to a fair number of people.
I'll give you fools a little inside information and that is COLA is the best thing that ever happened to Microsoft and Mr. Gates. Think about it, he doesn't have to do a darn...
The Help Browser for KDE at least contains all documentation for all installed KDE programs. Said Help Browser also has a "fulltext search" feature that is similar but not exactly equivalent to apropos. You can even see a list of all the man and info pages on the system in the Help Browser, and read them there should you desire. Or you can type "man:tr" into a Konqueror window to see the man page for tr in a pretty-printed way.
People can always find something to unpleasant woman about. If KDE apps had man pages but no Help menu, I'm certain the users would unpleasant woman about *that*. I'm positive that the usability guidelines for both KDE and GNOME say "programs must have help available from their menubars". As such, the developers and doc writers concentrate on that documentation, rather than man pages.
It'd be interesting if you could type "man konsole" and have "docbook2man options $KDEDIR-share-doc-HTML-en-konsole-index.docbook less" invoked, though. I think that would require some Ugly Hacks to the man database and so forth, though. Or you could run docbook2man on every KDE and GNOME program's docbook files and shovel them into man1, but that'd eat a fair amount of disk space to little purpose.
Having a few problems compiling glibc-2.3.5+linuxthreads+libidn on Slack-10.0. Looks like other Slacware users have noticed this. Bug??? Compile error as follows: mnt-build-src-glibc...
Oh yes: How do you feel about programs like GRUB, which have very unhelpful man pages that say "use the info page" ?
0 And advanced users are supposed to use the Menu Editor to fiddle with the K or foot menus so that they conform to their desires, etcetera.
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