[maemo-developers] hildon-help in fremantle?

[From: Joseph Charpak]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:31 +0200, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> may someone please explain to me how entirely removing any help system
> helps simplifying the device usage? 
> 
> The outcome of this is obvious: All applications (incl. my own) just won't have 
> any help system on fremantle. Or do you really expect the develpers to write
> a custom help system for their apps? And where would be the advantage of
> this? We'd end up with a bunch of completely different help systems which 
> neither makes things simpler nor more usable. 
> 
> So is the fremantle way really to not have any built-in help system? What else
> do you propose? Some online help?
> 

I assumed he meant developers would code in help using the standard
gnome help system, which isn't available in Diablo and earlier versions
of Maemo. I never understood that decision anyway.

Joseph Charpak
jcharpak at worldnet.att.net