UI module owner

Benton, Kevin kevin.benton at amd.com
Thu Jun 29 23:43:10 UTC 2006


> Benton, Kevin wrote:
> > In Vincent Flanders's book "Son Of Web Pages That Suck - Learning
Good
> > Design by Looking at Bad Design", he calls this "Mystery Meat
> > Navigation."  It's not intuitive and hides capabilities from users.
> 
> Yeah, OK, OK. I've filed a bug on fixing it :-)
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342740

:)

> > In the US, we have a saying - "a picture is worth a thousand words."
> > What I'd like to see in a lot of our help is just what timeless is
> > talking about - examples with visual reference - screen shots or
> > reproductions.
> 
> Dave may be right - we should split the user manual out of the
Bugzilla
> Guide, and focus on it for a while.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

> Bugzilla is too complicated not to need a manual, even if we work hard
> to make as many features as intuitive as possible.

I don't know that I would say it's "too complicated not to need a
manual", but I know that users would benefit from using a manual a lot
more than not having one while wanting one.

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Kevin Benton
Perl/Bugzilla Developer/Administrator, Perforce SCM Administrator
AMD - ECSD Software Validation and Tools
 
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