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Madman
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:33 pm
This idea is to bring easier-to-follow documentation to users. This idea is, when the user opens the first page of an application's help document (typically the contents at the moment), they are presented with a short, quick video that covers the user interface and some of the most common functions of the application. This should allow novice users (to both KDE and computers in general) to be able to quickly learn how to effectively use the application.


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Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:19 pm
It's a good idea, so I voted it up.

Only downside is that it takes longer to translate the documentation.
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Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:42 pm
Yeah, translation is an issue. I was thinking that scripts could be made that would then be translated, using the same video footage, so that it is consistent across languages. Still, it's no small task...


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Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:42 pm
Embedded text subtitles are a possibility, those shouldn't be any harder to translate than anything else.


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