Re: Maybe ITP: linuxtips - "Tip of the day"-Message-Viewer.

[Daniel Migowski <Mig-O@Mig-O.de>]

Hi,

> > If you do this, could you implement it as a fortune database, please?
> > Any "tip of the day program" would be best as a wrapper around fortune,
> > IMHO.
>
> This has been proposed a few times over the past few years.
> It was going to be part of dwww, but I don't think that ever
> happened. I was proposing a fortune database for it at one
> stage too.

So it's time to get it done :)

> Rather than a simple fortune file, it might be nice if there
> was a /usr/share/tips or something which any package could
> contribute to, if they had general type things that
> could benefit the user.


This is my intention, too. The thing is, that many tips could be derived from 
the faqs, but then Developers have to provide two versions of their faq: One 
in this fortune-format, and one in human-readable form, e.g. html.

Maybe we propose some standard on how to write faqs, so that linuxtips can 
handle them automatically?
One could also add a directory /usr/doc/FAQ then, with symlinks to the faqs 
in the /usr/doc/<package>-directorys.
Its the questions if tips should also be placed in /usr/doc/TIPS, eg., since 
TIPS are documentation rather then just shared data files to some program.

> Hamish

Daniel