Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97700
add documentation links to "start here"
Last modified: 2014-08-04 18:14:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Description of problem: beginners should appreciate if you add into the "start here" window some links to documentation: I'm thinking about gnome documentation and also redhat own documentation, if installed. Also some videos showing the common operations in Linux should be usefull. Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
It's up to the docs packages to install any such links, though I think they already do add a documentation menu to the main menu which may be fine.
When you install the RPM packages on the Red Hat Linux Documentation CD, a Main Menu entry called Documentation is created with a submenu listing of available documents you have installed. As far as GNOME docs are concerned, these can be accessed via Main Menu => Help, which opens the Help Browser (Yelp) where users can access GNOME documentation organized by category. I am assigning this bug to the Documentation technical lead (tfox) for further analysis.
yes, but this rfe was about making easier for beginners to start using redhat: i think that someone who never used redhat and is looking at the desktop will try to click onto the "start here" icon rather than clicking on the gnome foot icon in the lower left area.
Start here is going away in GNOME 2.8 (upstream), and FC3/RHEL4 will not have a Start Here icon any longer. Is this still valid?
The "Start Here" Icon has been removed from the desktop for both the community-supported Fedora Core and future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Installed Red Hat documentation and GNOME docs will still be accessible via the Main Menu. Thank you for your suggestion. We hope that you will continue to suggest ways to improve our documentation and the ways to access it :) Thanks again, John