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#3
Originally Posted by bennypr0fane View Post
Hello,
I'd like to draw everyone's esteemed attention to the fact that there is no single got-to resource available (or none that I have been able to locate in 8 months of using my N900 in plenty of different ways and scouring through the Maemo universe) for finding USAGE INSTRUCTION AND DOCUMENTATION (documentation as in user relevant information stating what this app can and cannot do). When searching for information that is not directly provided with the app/on the device, such can be found in all kinds of places - or not at all.
So here is what I am suggesting, most naively and bluntly:
All the great people out there who have found it worthwile writing/maintaining an app for Maemo should be obliged, in the process of pushing an app to the community repos, to write a minimum of lines stating rather precisely, in non-tech language (readable by numbnuts like me) its functionalities and, as not all apps and their various functions are completely self-explanatory, leave a minimum of instructions on how to use them. All this compulsory information should always be left in one and the same site, which is made known and public to all beginners who are new to the rather intricate inner workings of this rather fascinating world...
Nice idea, but it would't work. It would make everything way too easy, and take too little time. People here likes to search, and put every piece of info spread out in threads with 1000+ posts, if for no other reason than to make the searching experience more enjoyable.