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Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?



Le jeudi 04 mars 2010 à 15:20 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > No. It’s just that they ship with HTML documentation, which is much more
> > suitable for documenting a GUI. A manual page cannot contain things as
> > trivial as screenshots, which are mandatory.
> 
> But a manual page can at least provide a link to the HTML documentation.
> 
> This is far better than letting the user guess how to access the
> documentation.

Because, of course, the user is too stupid to click the “Help” menu
inside the application.

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