Bug 124750

Summary:	Userguide chapter Groupware-Kontact contains personal opinions and distribution specific parts
Product:	[Websites] docs.kde.org	Reporter:	Stephan Johach <lucardus>
Component:	Corrections	Assignee:	Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	howells, swinter, tchollingsworth
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Stephan Johach 2006-04-02 13:29:49 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.3 
OS:                Linux

A german KDE user pointed out that the userguide chapter about groupware and kontact has some personal opinions in it he found irritating. I think he's right. This is IMHO not appropriate for the KDE userguide. An example:

"But that can cause initial setup troubles. For a newbie like me it means: a 
long long frustrating nightmare, and too much complexity to manage once 
working. So no, thanks, I'll go to simple <acronym>IMAP</acronym>."

Furthermore the author sometimes uses the first person singular.

There's also at least one distribution specific part:

"# <userinput><command>apt-get</command> <command>install</command> 
cyrus21-imapd cyrus21-common cyrus21-admin cyrus21-client sasl-bin 
sasl2-bin</userinput> \n
<computeroutput>Installing cyrus21-imapd...</computeroutput><lineannotation>
The installer asks something I've not understood about an search address... I 
just pressed <keycap>Enter</keycap></lineannotation>."

These instructions are useless and irritating for users of other distributions which do do not use Debian.

I suggest to rework this chapter a bit.

Comment 1 Chris Howells 2006-05-22 20:21:12 UTC

ergh, you're right, the entire chapter reads more like a blog than KDE documentation :(

Comment 2 Jes Hall 2006-05-26 01:16:51 UTC

I recall proofreading this for Lauri, I assume she had a reason for including it.

Comment 3 Lauri Watts 2006-06-05 11:28:04 UTC

It was included at the insistence of the author and the kontact developers, because once you get through the writing, the content is reasonably ok.

I am not the author, other than I marked it up (and removed a fair bit of the personal opinion stuff already.)

As with the rest of the documentation, feel entirely free to help fix it.

Comment 4 T.C. Hollingsworth 2011-12-08 11:21:45 UTC

This documentation is no longer provided.