[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Usability - good help framework on the system

[S h i v]

On 8/10/07, michelle olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for this post and link to the desktop discussion! I agree
> completely that a good help system is needed to go with the software.
> I'm not sure a help system exists today that includes all of the
> collaboration and feedback that you envision, but I believe JavaHelp is
> open source now and many other options, so there are possibilities we
> can certainly explore!

The entire full blown support need not exist as of today. JavaHelp
might be good enough to have something much more functional than
today.

> Not sure if javaHelp is slow for you or just
> openoffice is slow?
>

Slowness is more to do with openoffice itself than the help.
Last I saw, the JavaHelp spec was open source, but all the authoring
tools available seemed to be 3rd party proprietary tools
(http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/industry.html)

Anyway, I will field any queries to docs-discuss.

btw, Richard Elling wrote:
> Most of ooo is written in C++.  Are you sure the help system is
> written in Java?
> -- richard

No, I am not sure. Initial coming up takes time and gives a overall
feeling of being sluggish.


> Feel free to bring this topic back to the documentation community via
> docs dash discuss at opensolaris dot org (you will need to subscribe),
> there you will find many folks who feel as you do and who will like to
> help in this very effort for Indiana.
>

Ok. Will do so.

~Shiv