'Start Here' instructions are not specific enough

Asked by Duncan Lithgow

Binary package hint: tomboy

Ubuntu 8.04
Tomboy 0.10.1

The 'Start Here' note says "You can create new notes to hold your ideas by selecting the "Create New Note" item from the Tomboy Notes"... but this item does not exist. The text should be:

"You can create new notes to hold your ideas by selecting 'File > New' from the Tomboy Notes menu ..."

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said :
#1

thanks for your report, the menu does exist, you have something broken on your system rather, thanks.

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) said :
#2

Please give me directions for finding this or post a screenshot. Thanks

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said :
#3

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) said :
#4

Pedro: I can now see what the 'Start here' note means. But really, how many users guess that 'Gnome Panel' refers to the notification area? I only just noticed that when Tomboy is running it has a status/notification icon on the panel. That is certainly not a common approach.

I am criticising that Tomboy uses that Panel this way - but I think the documentation should be made much clearer. For example:

from:
"You can create new notes to hold your ideas by selecting the "Create New Note" item from the Tomboy Notes menu in your GNOME Panel. Your note will be saved automatically."
to this:
"You can create new notes to hold your ideas by selecting 'File > New' or by clicking on the Tomboy icon which is on the GNOME Panel when Tomboy is running. Your notes will be saved automatically."

Please revert this Question back to a bug report against Tomboy's Documentation

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.