[Bf-committers] Blender doc intergration proposal

[Alastair Mason]

greetings

blender by defalt check for the existance of a defalt blender file if it
doen't exist it then creates one, this file is were all your user prefrences
are stored.

its been suggested before that we create a request at the start of blender
at its first load that gives the user the option to load in to first timers
mode or pro moded. first time could give an over view of the blender
interface. maybe also give a tutorial (eg gus).

the interface is actively updated and supports colors. it would be intesting
to find out if we could strap it to pythen to make a more inter active
tutorial.

it would be more usefull than tool tips

just my 2 cents

On 4/10/06, Stephen Swaney <sswaney at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:46:44AM +0200, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Mats Holmberg wrote:
> >
> > >about. Tooltips are usually made useless, take a look at any OS. In
> > >blender there are same kind of symptoms - in the 'render' button
> example,
> > >having a tooltip like 'start the rendering' is the same as having no
> > >tooltip at all.
> >
> > Heh. I am reminded of the beginning times of Blender open-source, where
> some
> > "newbie-friendlyness" dudes started adding tooltips like "Click to
> change".
> > :-) That's still my absolute favourite. I think they're still all over
> the
> > UI.
>
> Heh, indeed.  The purpose of tooltips is to provide a hint or reminder
> when the meaning of the button label or icon is not clear.  The word 'tip'
> here means 'advice or hint', not 'point' They are most useful for
> cryptic icons and buttons like Cmir.  For buttons like 'Render' they
> are redundant and rather silly.
>
> > Sorry, but I think that a tooltip is really the wrong place for a
> tutorial.
> > And to be even more honest, I don't think that it's blender's task at
> all to
> > teach people basic stuff about 3D technology - they're better off buying
> a
> > book at their favourite book store.
>
> Having a little 3d background in User's Guide is not a bad thing.  It
> does not belong in a Reference Manual.  And certainly not in the
> tooltips.
>
> --
> Stephen Swaney
> sswaney at centurytel.net
>
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