[maemo-developers] Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

[From: David Hazel]

In the context of this thread, I would like to highlight one point of
Thomas' in particular:

> One thing Microsoft excels at is in documentation, example
> code and support (you get what you are paying for ;-)

I guess the reaction of some people to that will be "Oh, well, Microsoft
have cash coming out their ears", so let me add this:

Apple's documentation and development tools on Mac OS X leave Microsoft and
everyone else in the shade. Not only is the documentation very extensive,
complete, well-cross-referenced and online, it is FREE!!! On top of this,
their development tools are also free and every bit as good as anything that
Micro$oft produces. They have obviously realised that there's a commercial
advantage to ensuring their platform is well-supported by software
developers and have made it as easy as they can for that to happen. I spent
6 months last year developing on Mac OS X (never having used it before), and
it was an absolute joy to work with something so well-engineered. It was
like being back in the VMS world, but with better development tools (and I
guess only another VMS programmer would know what a compliment that is).

Why is this relevant here? Well, if Apple can do it, so can others. I'm not
asking for development tools other than the ones already available; just for
good documentation that doesn't assume everyone who reads it already knows
where to find the bits that the author has skipped over. A bare minimum
would be a web page that lists links to existing documentation in some kind
of logical order (e.g. where you get to read the pre-requisite information
before you're halfway through a complicated example which assumes you
already know it).


David Hazel