On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 00:03 +0100, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 February 2024 23:19:42 CET Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> Maybe you saying that me asking for something "sounded like
> entitlement".
>
You asking for something doesn't sound like entitlement.
You using an expression like "the standard response" does sound like
entitlement ;-)
>
Actually it would sound like snark if it had been intended to be
confrontational. I think you're reading too much into it.
> It's my impression that the apps least likely to have man
pages are
> the
> KDE ones. Could it be that the KDE Project doesn't place much
> emphasis
> on this? (That's a genuine question, not a rhetorical barb).
I cannot speak for upstream but it is my understanding that most of
KDE's cli
programs are either an afterthought or designed for developers. That
might
explain the lack of man pages.
As evidenced by the original topic of this thread, some people actually
want to use command-line programs for non-developery things. There
isn't a hard and fast line between 'developer' and 'user'. The
wonderful thing about the old UNIX system (which I started using in the
1970s - yes, I'm that old) was that all the essential documentation was
included and machine-readable. That's a tradition to be cherished, not
cast aside.
poc