Rant Re Rev Documentation

[Judy Perry]

Thomas,

But, indeed, when other 'birds of a feather' stay silent, the 'powers that
be' are likely to be (justifiably) convinced that there is no such need
because there was no public conment.

This is why I do not mind looking like the community nay-sayer, unhappy
camper, unfavorable term for a female dog, etc.

I only wish I had a dollar US$ for every person who told me personally or
privately per email that they agreed with what I said.  Number 1: I'd be
rich and could retire.  Number 2:  I'd be able to afford to direct my
minions otherwise ;-)

Some people are afraid of 'looking stupid' (I clearly have no such
hang-ups) and so they say nothing.

But, for every person who says nothing and stays on-list, how many others
have we lost?  for no reason?

What you say, Thomas, below, is what I have just sent off in a related
post to this list, namely, that for some people, we need
compartmentalized, working, examples/tutorials/widgets ala what people
want/expect to be able to do that will hopefully make this product succeed
among the newbie/novice/inventive user category.

Thanks for responding!!!

Judy


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> Tim, Judy,
>
> To be fair I didn't respond to this part of Tim's request/rant because
> I thought it would be too daunting. It would be nice to have though. I
> always learn best by example. Sarah's stack on serial commands was very
> helpful, also some of the stacks/ideas that I found most helpful were:
> window shapes
> serial commands
> drawer examples
> password/encryption
> picture sliders/progress bars
> gif buttons/animated
> geometry hints and help
> player and quicktime and video grabber
> rotate images
> speech recognition and text speaking
> application icons
> screen saver/backdropper
> file path and preferences
> tabs and how they work
> text manipulation/hypertext
> printing/pdfs/export to file
> XML/tree view
> menus/ pop ups
> Unicode (the one thing I have yet to get to work right)
> Games/Colliding objects/moving balls
> drag and drop- internal and external
> Audio/wav/mp3 - recording and playback
> Midi
> Chat/Email
>
> and Nine Ball has been a great group learning experience.
>
> Maybe if we had a stack format like the ones used in the online
> conference stacks then these could be cleaned up and included???