On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:45:39 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> Cc: inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel@...6...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.44 status
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
Since it's HTML, I see little reason to include it instead of just linking to it. Instead what we need is a verb that could open an URL
The downside of that is links are extremely brittle and may not be around in 2 years time and then users will be stuck with links we cannot update. Two years is an underestimate of how long some people will use 0.44, some users just dont upgrade very often, others take what their sysadmins or distributions give them and updates could be even less frequent.
A link to "Online help" somewhere on the inkscape site where we could update external links if necessary might be a less brittle solution you coudl live with. Also by labelling it online help users will have a better chance of predicting it will fire up another big slow program and might take more than a few seconds, unlike the local help.