Re: Help pages, etc.

On ma, 2004-08-30 at 12:52 +0200, Marcel Pol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There's a bugreport in mandrake's bugzilla about the Help pages:
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11076
>
> The user has his language set to en_GB.
> Help -> Help Contents points to http://www.abisource.com/help/en-
> GB/index.html
> which is non-existant. Help -> Help index and Search for Help likewise.
> About Open Source also points to non-existant page.
> Only 3 languages have Help pages available. It might be an idea
> to have a webpage for non-existing translations. All the possible
> locales could be a symlink to an index.html, which says that the Help
> system is not translated to that language, and also links
> to the main Help page at http://www.abisource.com/support/

erm, right ... I should have fixed this ages ago... bumping on my todo
list...

> "About GNOME Office" points to the non-existant page http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/
> There were plans to revive that page, but that hasn't happened yet (IIRC). Maybe it should point to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office instead in the meantime?
> It might be an idea to have a redirection page on abisource.com, so that you can redirect the page at any time, because
> even after the webpage is revived, old releases of the software will then still
> point to wikipedia...

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ has been very recently removed. We're (sortof) working on a new page, which should be ready soonish. This will sort itself out...

> "Check Version" points to a page telling me "You have a newer version of Abiword".
> The reporter claims it's Bad English.
> This happens because the latest stable release is 2.0.11, and 2.1.5 (current cooker) is relatively newer. It would be more descriptive as:
> "You have a newer version of Abiword then the current stable version 2.0.11. You
> probably have a development version."

Right... some cases already work, like the following link:

  http://www.abisource.com/users/check_version.phtml?version=HEAD

Will add the 'development' checking in a few hours...

Thanks!
  Marc
Received on Mon Aug 30 12:51:49 2004