[FM Discuss] Thunderbird Manual Kick-Off

[Jennifer Zickerman]

Hi Mark.

- I have a Mac. I'll do the OS X chapter.

- I think a section in the Installation chapter called "Switching to 
Thunderbird" would be good. It's not simple and almost all new users 
have to deal with migrating accounts and address books.

- You might find some helpful source information on the Thunderbird 
Knowledge Base (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/). Feel 
free to register for an account if that would help you out. You may 
freely reprint any material on that site.

- I think it would be good to have a section on add-ons in the 
Installation chapter.

- I think we should have a chapter on the layout of the software with a 
brief description of each component. For example, one section in this 
chapter would describe the Folder panel and discuss the differences 
between the various views.

- For the Basic Usage chapter, I think we would need the following 
sections. (This is a quick brain dump, not a comprehensive list):

   - Send / Receive / Reply
   - Composing Messages
       - Text versus HTML formatting
            - Switching between the two
            - HTML formatting
   - Search
       - Global search
       - Quick Filter
       - Tagging
   - Keyboard Shortcuts
   - Archive
   - ...more...

- We will probably want to have a section on configuring and using RSS.

- In general, with regards to suggestions like the one I made above 
(proposals for new chapters and section and so on), should I go ahead 
and make the changes in the FLOSS Manuals site or would you rather 
discuss via email first?

I will be away from tomorrow until the middle of next week, so I won't 
be answering emails. I look forward to catching up with you late next week.



jen.


On 23/07/10 11:04 AM, Mark wrote:
> Hello Everyone -
>
> I'm looking for volunteers to join me in writing the Thunderbird manual.
> For this initial version I think we should focus on installation, basic
> email tasks, and security. Please take a look at the chapter list that I
> put together at the FLOSS site
> (http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/WebHome). I'm
> interested in hearing what you think should be added or removed from it.
>
> At work and home I have computers running Windows and Ubuntu but no
> Macs. I would love it if a Mac user would volunteer to write the OS X
> chapter.
>
> As I really don't want to use my email accounts in the screen shots (and
> I don't think that anyone else does either), I have set up a few email
> accounts for the project. Security isn't all that important to these
> accounts so I'll put the passwords on the writing conventions page.
>
> - floss.reader1 at gmx.com
> - floss.reader2 at gmail.com
> - floss_mail at yahoo.com
>
> I'm looking forward to working on this manual. Let's get started.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Brennan
>
>
>
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