My opinion: This encourages people to look at the wiki and gets them pointed in the right direction. This is much better than a new user firing off a quick question to the Community. Most anything that is encourages people to get interested in IPFire is a good thing.
There are very few people that will read the whole wiki from the start (not sure how many wiki pages?). Especially reading something that is technically difficult.
I’ll use myself as an example. Right now I am trying to learn a little about SIP and Asterisks and FreePBX. I tried reading various pages of Asterisks (or FreePBX) and it is over my head. So I try a few things on my Asterisks box, watch a video, read a little, try some thing than rinse & repeat. (And Yes I realize asterisks is not the same as IPFire).
I did the same with IPFire (and IPCop) many years ago. It works very well for me.
Anything that makes it super easy to find a way to the wiki is a good thing!
From: Jon Murphy Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020, 11:10 AM To: development-request@lists.ipfire.org, development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Help for GUI
Oops… maybe my bad?
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:35:00 +0100 From: Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org To: Tim FitzGeorge ipfr@tfitzgeorge.me.uk Cc: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Help for GUI Message-ID: 6390F8AE-998D-489E-A983-1A875E2761F2@ipfire.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hi Tim,
Thank you very much for submitting these patches.
I am afraid that I must say that I oppose these changes.
This has recently been discussed on the community portal and although I still have not made my mind up entirely, I think this not helpful to anyone:
- We do not have documentation for everything for a start
- There is never this ?just read one sentence and you suddenly will be an expert? thing this kind of promotes
Should we not rather link the wiki somewhere in the footer and encourage people to start reading the whole thing from the start before they do something?
What is your rationale to implementing this?
Best, -Michael
On 15 May 2020, at 22:39, Tim FitzGeorge ipfr@tfitzgeorge.me.uk wrote:
Add per-page help link to GUI. The link is extracted from the menu file and added to the menu. Currently only implemented for 'ipfire' and 'ipfire-rounded' themes.
Tim FitzGeorge (3): Help for GUI - ipfire theme code Help for GUI - Help links Help for GUI - help link style
config/menu/10-system.menu | 11 +++++++ config/menu/20-status.menu | 13 ++++++++ config/menu/30-network.menu | 20 +++++++++-- config/menu/40-services.menu | 6 ++++ config/menu/50-firewall.menu | 8 ++++- config/menu/60-ipfire.menu | 1 + config/menu/70-log.menu | 33 ++++++++++++------- config/menu/EX-apcupsd.menu | 1 + config/menu/EX-guardian.menu | 1 + config/menu/EX-mpfire.menu | 1 + config/menu/EX-samba.menu | 1 + config/menu/EX-tor.menu | 1 + config/menu/EX-wlanap.menu | 1 + html/html/themes/ipfire/include/css/style.css | 8 +++++ html/html/themes/ipfire/include/functions.pl | 19 +++++++++-- 15 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
-- 2.26.1