[maemo-developers] Request: Tutorials & use-cases for documentation

[From: Michael Hasselmann]

> ext Gary Birkett wrote:
> > there is more than one method of doing everything.

But that's part of the problem, at least for newcomers. They look for
the best/easiest way, most likely.

Am Freitag, den 12.02.2010, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Quim Gil: 
> There is a good point behind this which is how to cross use cases with
> technologies. I don't think the answer is to aim to cover all
> technologies equally for each use case e.g.
> How to get a nice % progress bar

I wouldn't neccessarily expect that the solution to a usecase looks
similar with each toolkit. If you then start to explain the exceptions
(and why things are different) then you'll quickly blow up the size of
the tutorial-style usecase, without helping the reader. It'll only add
to the confusion.

> I guess developers first make a decision about the toolkit they are
> going to use and then expect to find documentation specific to that
> toolkit. Cross-links are nice but that's it.
> [...]
> Looking at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Use_case_template it is
> not clear whether such links should be placed in the intro, Related
> APIs... Tips & Tricks would force the template too much.

A title suffix such as ".... (gtkmm)" plus wiki categories would help if
one wanted to make usecases available for all toolkits.

regards,
Michael