[Gimp-web] proposal for new site structure

[Axel Wernicke]

Hi List,

the GIMP manual already has lots of content. Some of it might be  
useful for the Website, so I'd like to leave some comments:

Am 18.03.2007 um 12:07 schrieb Karine Delvare:

> On Friday 09 March 2007 02:05:41 Ronnie Tucker wrote:
>
>> 	History
>> 	(would replace About and include History sections in one page)
>
> Renamed "About GIMP" to "History", and moved the last parts to the
> "GIMP everywhere" page.
> I'm not sure I understand "include History sections in one page"

There is a huge GIMP history article at http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp- 
introduction-history.html (note, that this is even translated into a  
lot of languages). May be this can be used for the website or may be  
connected by a link. Even the Manual is rebuild pretty often, the URL  
can be assumed to be stable.

...

>
>> 	Documentation
>> 	(help files, online documentation etc)
>> 		Books
>> 		Tutorials
>> 		(have screens of what each tutorial will accomplish)
>> 		Mailing Lists
>> 		(update current info)
>

Some of the content of the documentation section is also contained in  
the manual. I'd suggest rather to link to the GIMP manual / online  
help then to duplicate the content - only very essential things  
should be duplicated IMHO.
Content that I'd suggest to replace by a link to the manual is:

The configuration section at http://next.gimp.org/docs/
to be replaced by
- http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-fire-up.html#gimp-concepts-running
- http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-setup-tile-cache.html

I also seriously doubt, that the man pages for gimp, gimprc, gimp- 
remote and gimptool are very useful for the average reader. The man  
gimp can be found in the manual, gimp-remote is dead and the gimptool  
is needed for devs only ?!

Greetings, lexA

Btw. I like the new look of the pages as much as I love to see that  
somebody cares for the site again!

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