Bind all documentation together

[UBUminJ]

Is it possible to bind all documentation of installed software together - like paper copies in a binder (not only man pages).
Automatically during installation and removing it when the software is removed.
Everything can be searched in one place. Bookmarks could be added.
Results from several programs could be read together.

What do you think ?

[ajgreeny]

I don't really see what you are trying to do or ask. The man for the application will go when the app is uninstalled, and in some cases the Help files will also go. Others, like gimp, for example need the documentation added and removed separately, and often it is not a separate dependency of the app, just an option, so I think it would be difficult to justify a lot of developer time spent on trying to do this, if I understand you correctly.

[Tristam Green]

Three man pages for KDE, in its shiny home,
Seven for the GNOMEs, in their halls of stone.
Nine man pages for man, in a redundant bout,
One for the benevolent dictator-for-life,
with whom Ubuntu cannot live without.

One man page to rule them all,
One man page to bind them,
like papers in a three-ring catch-all,
and in the terminal find them!


So sorry, I just couldn't resist!

[aeiah]

Three man pages for KDE, in its shiny home,
Seven for the GNOMEs, in their halls of stone.
Nine man pages for man, in a redundant bout,
One for the benevolent dictator-for-life,
with whom Ubuntu cannot live without.

One man page to rule them all,
One man page to bind them,
like papers in a three-ring catch-all,
and in the terminal find them!


So sorry, I just couldn't resist!


:neutral:

[MikeTheC]

One man page to rule them all,
One man page to bind them,
like papers in a three-ring catch-all,
and in the terminal find them!

You suck!!! ;) (Ya beat me to it!)

That was awesome. I couldn't have said it better myself.

[UBUminJ]

I don't really see what you are trying to do or ask.

If you look for documents in your house, do you have them distributed with every appliance.
The manual of the washing machine is attached to the washing machine, your TV manual lies on the TV, your ipod manual goes with the ipod ?
Guess not, probably, you store all neatly together on your (book) shelves.

I would like to see installation of software doing the same with help files, digital manuals etc, storing them into a ONE directory (with/without subdirectories) and registering(?) that these materials are there - and uninstallation doing the reverse.

And if software producer would produce all their documentation the same way - as html and/or pdf and/or text - you might be able to search all of it at once instead of one by one.

An OpenStandard for Documentation would certainly be helpful.

I am sure such a measure would increase the usability/user friendlyness of Ubuntu/Linux over the other software (you know which one).

Cheers
Michael

[cariboo]

Most of the documentation is in two places /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man, it's like having to shelves of books. :)

Jim