Originally Posted by krisse

Ahhh, hang on, you mean like a sub-directory of a website?

The OS thing could be a problem as some of the tutorials only work with Chinook (mostly the ones that depend on host mode as there's no easy way to put Diablo tablets into host mode AFAIK).

Also, beginners probably won't know what their OS version is because it's not really mentioned anywhere in the interface. They are much more likely to just know the model number of their tablet, and whether they have updated the firmware.

The approach perhaps ought to be that people find tutorials by tablet model, and are told to update to the latest firmware in order to make the tutorial work. That way they wouldn't have to know anything about firmware versions, merely make sure they have updated the firmware recently.

[Titles: ]Clarity might be more important than consistency. Some tutorial titles lend themselves to "how to" but others don't. Couldn't titles be done on a case-by-case basis?

Originally Posted by Jaffa

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".

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

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".

Originally Posted by krisse

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?

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

Originally Posted by Jaffa

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

Originally Posted by krisse

You mean USB Control? That isn't available for Diablo though...

Originally Posted by Jaffa

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

Originally Posted by Jaffa

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.

Originally Posted by BrentDC

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?