On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:16:03PM +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
John Cliff wrote:
In Help the whole time. Imagine that. I'm so accustomed to useless Help sections that I never looked there. Thank you.
Kinda tragic how often we hear that...
I've always felt that the tutorials are a little bit tucked away in the Help menu. As Edward said, most Help menus are a pile of rubbish. Can something be done to draw more attention to it? Maybe a dialog that says about it on the first start up... (Although people would probably have objections to that due to usability.)
I've thought about this myself quite a bit, and also would like to see it have higher visibility.
I've thought about ideas like having a default svg pop up on first use, that points out the tutorials and such.
However, even if the user doesn't notice the tutorials, Inkscape is still pretty straightforward to learn. We've got mentions of the tutorials in a variety of places, so I'm sure most dedicated users will eventually run across them. Also, even though in other apps Help is not helpful, I think us putting genuinely useful things in there will spur others to make sure good stuff is in their Help menus.
Bryce