Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

Yes. "Namespace" is the wrong term, as GeneralAntilles pointed out. I can't remember what the right one is - but "sub-directory" seems to be pretty understandable :-)

Isn't the OS categorisation a good thing if they only work on certain OSes? Anyway, as for USB host on Diablo - I start "USB" from my "Settings" application menu and click "Host".

If I had the appropriate cable, I wouldn't even need to do that - but I use the as-shipped cable and a gender-bender.

Oh, indeed - but I'm not imagining people having to guess the URLs ;-)

Sounds sensible. Could even have nice large images of each of the tablets to click on.

[quote]Of course it would mean the tutorials would all have to be checked (and possibly updated) to make sure they work with Diablo.

Aye, not too much of a problem if they're only text.

Depends if the index is going to be maintained by hand (allowing different titles on the index from the page itself) or auto-generated as much as possible.

I favour the latter (reduces work), and so would try strenuously to avoid a "how to" prefix unless absolutely necessary. After all, it's a tutorial - it's going to be a "how to".

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

True, there is a contradiction in what I said. :-)

I suppose what I should have said was:

If people only know their device model number and are aware of when they last updated firmware, then perhaps the best approach is to organise tutorials by device number and instruct them to update to the latest firmware.

The tutorials would then have to be kept up to date to work on the latest firmware.


What do you have installed that gives you a host option?



Yes, that sounds like a good idea.



It wouldn't be that hard to maintain by hand, especially if very few people are actually writing these beginners tutorials.

And it would be much easier for beginners to navigate a themed index with basic lessons listed above complex ones. That's how school textbooks organise themselves, for exactly the same reason.


The index would still be better with manual sorting because the more complex stuff doesn't necessarily come later in the alphabet.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

True. Similar to the forum split here, taking into account devices which couldn't be upgraded further (i.e. somewhere to put fremantle tutorials without removing the diablo ones)

Hopefully, a mini-team like the Bug Squad, tmo taggers, Wiki Action Group could come together to do that. (I'd hope you'd want to still be involved in that)

http://tabletblog.com/2008/03/n810-native-usb-host.html

With the proper OTG cable, it Just Works; but since a gender-changer was cheaper...

Yup, I'm convinced. You could do it automatically with leading prefices, but the index also gives a single point of quality control.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

You mean USB Control?

That isn't available for Diablo though...

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

So it appears. It works fine though, so I wonder why it's not in diablo Extras.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

It doesn't install through the Downloads site either, just tried to make sure.

Is there any way for it to be made available through Diablo Extras? If it works on Diablo then it ought to be...

I know there are workarounds but I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, people ought to be able to install this with one click just like other Diablo apps.

It would be quite nice to make this happen because a number of the most popular tutorials (keyboard, memory stick, HDD) depend on USB Control being easy to install. Once it's installed, it's really really easy to use USB accessories through a gender-bender.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

Urho Konttori has uploaded a version of USBControl to extras-devel for testing.

Needs a `Section' tweak for v1.1 before promotion to Extras but otherwise looks fine.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

Hmm... how long do you reckon it will take before it's promoted?

It would save a LOT of bother regarding the USB tutorials if USB Control was available in Extras, they wouldn't really need to be rewritten at all.

It would also mean that pretty much all of the tutorials would work with Diablo.

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

If the version in extras-devel does work, and all that is needed is a slight modification to change the section, then it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to promote it to extras.

Maybe you should contact Urho Konttori?

Additionally, anyone with upload rights can do that, but it's only polite to contact the maintainer first (I know I wouldn't want someone promoting a package of mine to extras if I didn't deem it ready).

Re: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
 

I did (but didn't make it clear in my post). Gave him a prod yesterday on #maemo, and gave the feedback via email.

I'll let you know the status as it changes.