Bug 128495

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Saturday 28 July 2007 17:47:00 Matthew East wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> * Dougie Richardson:
> > On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:51 +0100, Phil Bull wrote:
> >> Do you
> >> have any further plans for the switching guide?
> >
> > I have a few thoughts but thought I'd see what people thought first.
>
> These are all good thoughts. However, we need to think about what the
> purpose of the guide is in order to figure out whether some of these
> changes are appropriate - to my mind there is no need for the Switching
> to be a comprehensive guide to using Ubuntu, because the rest of the
> system documentation has that aim already, and it may simply be better,
> rather than (for example) embarking on a section about synaptic, to just
> explain how software installation works in Ubuntu, and refer to the
> system docs for a more detailed explanation. The same applies to the
> terminal, and so on. That way the Switching guide is a lighter and more
> readable introduction to Ubuntu, which can be used as an effective
> marketing tool.
>
> Matt

While I agree the switching guide is more geared towards a "marketing" 
document.  I think there does need to be help for those that are indeed 
migrating from Windows to Ubuntu.  How do I import my IE/Firefox bookmarks 
etc to Ubuntu.
Unless the migration wizard does all that for you