FAQ Guide irc discussion

[Rob]

Hi,

I was just reading over a few IRC logs and found a discussion about the
FAQ guide and how some sections need to be made more user friendly. It
was also mentioned that sections could be reorganised. As part of
"Improve answers to explain what is happening" this is my intention. 

"mdke because having a single chapter for add on applications, and a
single chapter just for DHCP (which a new user will struggle to figure
out what is about) seems odd"

These sections could be moved into a "Networking" section (as
mentioned). Add on applications should be split up better also.

mdke for example if I want to enable mp3 support, where do I go?
mdke i look down, i see networking, security, but no multimedia/music
mgalvin we should organize it better
mdke yeah i was just thinking that is the reason
mdke with ubuntuguide because it was one single page, structure didn't
matter that much because users would just search
mdke for us, we need to get the categories right
mgalvin additionally, ubuntuguide is meant to be a beginners getting
started guide but...
mdke "How to install Multimedia Codecs?" is not user friendly
mdke my flatmate has had a computer for years and I taught him what a
codec is just today

Agreed. Also another problem I intend to fix. This is one of the main
criticisms of ubuntuguide.org in that it doesn't explain anything. The
basis of these problems is that the faq guide is based off
ubuntuguide.org. I've started fixing these problems however (eg section
2) and there's more to come.

Rob

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