On 05 Mar 2002 22:09:18 +0100, Laurent EVAIN wrote:
>
> I wrote a few months ago to say that, though
> fvwm was a wonderful window manager, a introductive
> documentation was missing. The current documentation
> is very extensive and it is not so easy to read.
> I am volunteer to try to write such an introductory
> documentation. The goal would
> be:
> -to help people to understand the philosophy of fvww
> so that they can decide whether they want to use it
> -if they want to use it, to draw up a general picture
> of fvwm to prepare for the man pages
>
> The length would be 5 or 6 pages, and
> definitly at most 10 pages.
Here is my humble opinion.
It is impossible to compress the man page from, say, 5000 lines to 10.
Such summary may be useful to get some initial information about FVWM, but
it will not answer any non trivial question, so in the end the user should
read 10+5000 lines. :)
But, maybe you may write these 10 pages so they open eyes, I don't know.
> However, before starting, I would like to make sure
> that people find this work useful and
> that no one has already started such a work.
Even if there is a similar work, I don't think yours will be a repetition.
Think about this as two independent journalists wrote about FVWM.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 19:02:34 GMT