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#106
Originally Posted by davedickson View Post
I realise that and I am grateful for all the work they put in. My idea was actually aimed at helping them rather than me.

If they posted a techy guide (doesn't have to be long) people like me that need a bit more infomation than the power users but less than new users, could then create the walkthroughs (for brand new users) for them.

As someone who is new to linux, a step-by-step with screenshots etc would be so useful. I want to make those from the techy guide so the devs don't get everyone asking them questions all the time, they could just follow it click by click, and thats it done. No threads no questions = more time for devs lives
I think in the past, what you are describing has occurred several times. A developer has posted a complex guide, and a new-ish user has made it into a simple one (I think this happened with the Tear browser, for one example). I think the main problem in that respect is that right now the developers are considered their applications too buggy to release. In the past, the process you are describing usually happened after an application had developed a little and all the main bugs had been removed, bringing the application to a "everyday use" condition.