[Bf-docboard] Original (higher quality) manual images available

[Tobias Heinke]

Hi Campbell,

You got me, this is playing around, sure this has no priorty, but we get 
into some type of discusion
There so much hunger in the world. How can you go fishing and letting 
the fish go afterwards.
Because fishing is FUN (I've haven't done yet, I don't know).
And yes I'm working on the manual. BlenderWUI is just a do something 
else sometime project - scripting (-programming).

We also have avoid get stucked into:
the low barrier vs. avoid drive by edits  discussion.
It's always going to be compromise and in my opinion not the reason why 
there are few contributers.
3D-Graphics is complicated and the average Blender user is a hobbist and 
mostly the artist typ.

People rather publish on there own blog than write an manual article.
What's the difference between a blog and the Blender manual:

  * name tagged on
  * jester's licence: what, true/false
  * art content, how to, tutorials

I'm not a friend of seeing competition everywhere. But we can't ignore it.

Every edit is a anonymous donation to Blender.
Section ownership is step in the direction to common donation handling:
on Github: contributers, MDN does a tag cloud with article authors.

Maybe we can find guest authors: scholarpedia style
http://scholarpedia.org/article/Color_vision
by asking people to merge there blog entry into the blender manual

Sphinx is just one of 400 Open Source static side generators.
And for Blender -against my personal preference- it's not a bad choice.

So dont let us get overwhelmed by the pile of problems. :)

Tobias

Am 27.02.2016 um 17:49 schrieb Campbell Barton:
> Tobias,
> I worry that the manual is being treated as some kind of technology
> playground here.
>
> We can of course write our own clever extensions, tweak themes ... and
> encode screenshots in some interactive data.
>
> Such changes may be fine - but at this moment we struggle to even get
> people to contribute basic changes,
> and until that changes am strongly against complicating the build
> process or investing a lot of time in non-essential improvements.
> (Unless they are really helping us get the basics working).
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Gaia Clary
> <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>> On 27.02.2016 17:06, Tobias Heinke wrote:
>>> Talking about images:
>>> Please: Scale down the browser window to around 500px width - until
>>> the menu collapse:
>>> https://www.blender.org/manual/editors/nla.html#strips
>>> :D
>> At least you will never ever forget this icon again :)
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