maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki

	krisse	2009-05-19 , 13:53
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Originally Posted by Jaffa

Isn't the OS categorisation a good thing if they only work on certain OSes?

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.

Anyway, as for USB host on Diablo - I start "USB" from my "Settings" application menu and click "Host".

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

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

Yes, that sounds like a good idea.

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.

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.

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".

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

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