Re: Documentation
Re: Documentation
- Subject: Re: Documentation
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:48:42 -0400
On Aug 4, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Allison Newman wrote:
In this particular case for example, my searches failed, because I
was searching on "screensaver" rather than "sleep". This happens
quite often when you are coming from a non-OSX environment, such as
Windows, Linux, Java, whatever - different platforms use different
terminology for the same thing - you say 'bonjour' and I say
'zeroconf' type of thing. Or, as was my case this time, I was
searching for "screensaver" because it was my screensaver that was
getting in the way on my own computer, not the sleep function. I
got fixated on the wrong word. I learned an awful lot about
ScreenSaverView, ScreenSaverDefaults, and how to write my own
screensaver, but absolutely nothing about how to turn off the system
screensaver.
Don't Windows and Linux machines sleep too?
Once in a while people post questions here and it turns out they
weren't searching for the right keywords. Or they have no idea what
keywords to search for and are only asking for what they *should*
search for, and they'll be happy to do their own homework after that.
I don't think any tool or document can eliminate the occasional need
for questions like these; at some point you need human beings, who are
better at figuring out what you mean. It helps if you have a large
collection of knowedgeable human beings, like, say, this list. I
don't think folks here mind answering these questions as long as the
poster has shown a good-faith effort to do his or her own homework.
--Andy
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