[scribus] A Scribus Random Tips window ?

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Mai 2014 um 10:28 Uhr
> Von: "Kunda Loves Scribus" <scribus.user at gmail.com>
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] A Scribus Random Tips window ?
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:04 AM, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> 
> >
> > the hints i tend to like more, are the ones inkscape is giving in the
> > status bar.
> >
> > i think that other forms might also be possible...
> > all in all, i'd welcome a non obstructive hinting, with no
> > interaction needed from the user and context aware...
> >
> > but it should be very very very well implemebted, otherwise it will do
> > more harm than it's useful...
> >
> > not an easy task!
> >
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
> 
> 
> Hey a.l.e, non-obstructive hinting...(in the status bar) that seems like a
> happy medium...? That sounds elegant.
> 
> Some thoughts:
> My logic for this is that Scribus has immense utility and functionality but
> most people don't utilize it...including myself (yet). I agree with
> Christoph that the online documentation needs to be further improved..but
> it goes beyond that, IMO. It's not our job to educate the end user fully
> but we can wet their appetite and help them discover. This is how people
> learn best. Right now I have not successfully run any scripts in 1.5 at
> all. I haven't really utilized the Story Editor. Scribus provides some
> templates at startup for people to utilize but once one is chosen the user
> is totally left to their own devices, aka dropped (my opinion, again).
> 
> I'm glad I brought this up because I wasn't aware of this other perspective
> that Vlada and Christoph provice, Agreed, I'm also not intrested in
> creating GUI bloat. Is there any agreement thought that the 'Help' aspect
> of Scribus needs some...j*e ne sais que* because there a ALOT of legwork
> left to the user to do. I think that there can be a graceful medium where
> we can captivate, not forcefeed, the user to read on and learn more.
> 
> So my intention is to help facilitate that in an elegant way. More ideas
> are welcome. Thanks for participating.
> 
> Cheers,
> /Kunda


We can always add sample/tutorial files à la Inkscape to our templates collection and create a separate category "Tutorials". That seems to be the easiest solution to me, and it wouldn't require any additional coding at all, unless you consider creating new or modifying existing simple XML files as "coding".

Christoph