Effective SM entries (was Proposal for Morphicperformance-measurement enhancement)

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jul 29 18:25:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:49:37PM +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > *Write down completely explicit instructions on how to use 
> > the package*.
> > 
> > And yes, I really mean *completely explicit*. For the package we're
> > talking about, I'd recommend the following additional text.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I don't think this should be part of the package description, but rather an
> accompanying tutorial or so. Even if it's just a short notice having some
> "how-to" being present makes a lot of a difference. This is why I added the
> B3D tutorial to the World menu.
> 
> On more thought: Perhaps we should generally have some menu where loaded
> packages can register themselves to provide additional information. For
> example, when you load some of the packages then they'll open up some
> workspace which is nice. But when you close the workspace it's gone. So I
> have a couple of images where I have a project full of workspaces about
> those packages but not in the places where I'd need them. Perhaps we should
> add some really dog-simple "packages" to the world menu which
> * serves as an overview about the packages you've loaded (I _really_ miss
> some quick way of checking what I have in any particular image)
> * serves as an entry point to have some "top-level information" about the
> project whatever this may be - could be a summary, links to places to start
> at, overview, tutorial whatever.

I think that this is a great idea.

Joshua

> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 



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