Writing Documentation

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Writing Documentation
started by: LaughingSeraphim

Posted by LaughingSeraphim on May 18 2004,16:25

Holy Moly,

It has been a very long time since a linux project evoked enough interest in me to want to be involved. I am beyond impressed with this little OS, 50 megs and its pretty rhobust. I'd be more than happy to provide a step by stepper for new users on the BCLive v of DSL. Tell me where to send it guys, and uh, use my email addy, god knows when I'll have the tiem to look around the bbs again.
Also IF your really looking for suggestions... I know you'l hate this..seriously. Either make somethign akin to VB, as was done for mac, or make support for VBrun60.dll native (if small enough). THat will allow for RAD on your OS, as well as present a massive library of pre existing apps that transitional users are comfy with. Just an idea. And yes I actually do know what issues that presents (roughly)
A floating type menu, I have a crappy little UI that is pure functionality that acts like an expanding menu of sorts, uses 10k memory and an area on screen about the size of a dime at 640x480, but expands into enough menus to fill a 1024x768 screen, if one has that much junk available.
Yoru desktop and setup kick ass. Menu descriptors need work, actually I'll write a doc to make that easier. n/m. Oh yeah, I have 384 megs, im sure DSL could load itself into ram so as to allow me access to the same cdrom I used to load it. Not everyone loads there machine down with 9 cdr drives.
Lastly, if you want this to be a viable entity and widely used tool, which it is certainly on its way to being (Its the best linux out there Ive seen, then again Corel was the last linux I really used) THink, idiot client user, whose machien I set it up on and want to not have a service call for at least six months. Which is also nice for geeks like myself, dumb ass proof and easy on the outside, one click access to the more complicated crap. Your pretty much there. Again, I am so very very impressed.

Last, games aint needed , apps like spell checkers, card files and a system to store user prefes on a fat32 logical part (you know, so I could always run from CD and still save prefs..) would be nice though.

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Posted by MikeC on May 18 2004,17:29

Heh, I think everyone of your needed apps are already in there:
Ted has a spell check.
'card files', do you mean something like an address book? Check out Sqlite Book.
And I believe the backup system can write to FAT as well.

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 19 2004,05:54

The backup system does indeed write to fat / fat32 drives. That's how I always backed things up - I'd manually mount the PCMCIA drive formattted to Fat32, or else the 8-gig HD that had a fat-32 for my go-between from Fedora to Winbl0wz, and backup to that. Worked like a hot damn.