Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot
> > lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the
> > /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And
> > there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude.
>
> Midnight Commander (mc) could fill this role. As it happens the current
> version is broken to the extent that it does not know how to access .deb
> files. There is a bug report on this which is a month old but mc is still
> useful as it can handle .gz files and the like.
>
I have a system here with Caldera Open Linux Standard and one thing that
they did was create a default fvwm popup menu when you click on the root
window. The first item in that window is "Help on Linux". Selecting that
gives the next layer popup that includes links to such things as the woven
docs (FAQ's, HOWTO's, etc in HTML) and launches a browser to read them.
Since Debian could not launch Netscape by default, they COULD launch lynx
in an Xterm or possibly the new GUI linux browser when it is ready. The
point here is the default fvwm X configuration is VERY helpful allowing
you to select things like configuration tools and the like from popup
menus. Root has different menus than the users do. (actually root has
more ADDITIONS to the default systemwide selection).
Seems to me the first step would be in deciding on a default standard X
window manager and then going on to the default menus from there.
George Bonser
grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@concentric.net
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