[Lazarus] Missing Documentation

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Feb 29 09:57:14 CET 2012


On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:34:14 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 02/28/2012 08:06 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > If you want to write some help about an IDE dialog: Use F1 to open the 
> > wiki page. If it does not open, or opens the wrong page, just write an 
> > email, so I can fix it.
> If this happens rather often this is no possible way to go.

I do hope people use the provided help often.

 
> And it it does open: Is the helpful user supposed to use the wiki to 
> improve the help text ? This would make the Wiki database the primary 
> help source. 

It is since many years. 
Have you seen any secondary help for the dialogs?


> I seem to remember that exactly this was discouraged in the 
> recent "big" discussion on "offline help".-

Maybe the discussion was mainly lead by people that "discourage"
without doing something.

Mattias




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