Bryce Harrington wrote:
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.
I think this is a Very Good Idea, myself. It come up instead of the default blank page, and be like a "Getting started page" -- something like this:
---- ### Welcome to Inkscape ###
Welcome to Inkscape, we hope you enjoy the program. If you would like information about development etc. see our website http://inkscape.org/ (bla bla bla)
## What to do next ##
* Start drawing -- go to File>New, and you can start playing around with Inkscape right away! * Learn the program -- you'll find lots of helpful tutorials in the Help>Tutorials menu * View other artwork created with Inkscape -- there is an Inkscape deviantART group at http://inkscape.deviantart.com/ where you can witness the power of Inkscape * [Anything else?] ----
What does the list think of such a page?