[udig-devel] Linux & Windows FAQ

[Jody Garnett]

That is fun ... I just finished rewording the end of that page into a 
FAQ and then read your email :-)

- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Running+uDig

> Well I agree, I think the problem I encounter as a user (not yet
> a developer) is that there isn't any place to compile questions
> with or without answers.  FAQs are really wonderful things, if they're 
> kept well.  It is much harder to glean answers to questions from the 
> archives of the developers' email list.  This is why I asked whether 
> there's an overall plan for user documentation.
>> I do not even know how to disable advanced graphics ... can someone 
>> tell me so we can make this paragraph useful? I join the author in 
>> asking "what is going on".
> Ah, this one is pretty easy.  At startup the first time, uDig shows
> you a dialog that you can use to disable advanced graphics, and it
> suggests that you might want to do it.  After that time, you can
> disable (or re-enable) advanced graphics using a check box in
> Window > Preferences > uDig UI.  This seems to work: the zoom box gets 
> a degree of transparency when advanced graphics are enabled and is 
> opaque when advanced graphics are disabled.
>
> But I agree that it would be good to have a little more background 
> info on this issue written up somewhere.  I have only a superficial
> understanding of it.  I can say "advanced graphics" but I don't know 
> what it means here.
I wrote down my guess on the FAQ and linked to the only bug report that 
looked even close :-(
Can you send me a screen snap of that dialog box for the documentation 
please :-)
> Instructions are good; instructions with explanations are better ;-)
Fair enough - and boy am I glad it is a wiki.
> My point about users is that they can help you, and you don't get
> that benefit if you only talk to developers.  Users won't know what
> "eclipse" is and arguably don't need to know.  I'm only dimly aware of 
> it, yet the answers to some of my questions are in its documentation.
> I'm suggesting that this is not desirable in the long term.
>
> and I still can't get an info window--sure would be nice to click on
> a feature and see its attributes.
I see - did you install Mozilla?

Jody