Cortex documentation should be moved into the User Guide

[waddlesplash]

The old documentation exists in the tree at ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/docs/apps/cortex -- it should be cleaned up and moved into the User Guide.

[Tanyi_Tk]

I'd like to work on this if no one is working on it.

[Tanyi_Tk]

And if I understand clearly, the entire cortex folder is to be moved to userguide and cleared from its current location?

[humdinger]

Before working on this:

IMO Cortex in its current state isn't needed by the general end user. It is useful for developers of Haiku and 3rd party apps that deal with the media kit. But I doubt the people targetted by the user guide have much use for it.

Wouldn't it make much more sense to outsource Cortex (to HaikuArchive) and have a package for it in HaikuDepot?

If people don't agree, the Cortex page for the user guide cannot be a simple copy & paste of the existing doc. It'd need a description of all the available add-ons, their usage with screenshots, examples etc. Of course, even if Cortex were to be outsourced, such improved docs would be very welcome...

[pulkomandy]

+1 to outsourcing.

+1 to improved docs :)

[diver]

+1 to outsourcing too.

[waddlesplash]

-1 to outsourcing. There are a few Media Kit bugs related to routing that make it less useful, but once we get multiple audio jack support, it will be *very* useful in doing connection routing and parameter tweaking on individual nodes.

[pulkomandy]

It will not be any less useful as a 3rd party app. And I don't expect the regular user to have to tweak parameters manually. Routing connections, maybe... but that's already quite advanced use.

[KapiX]

+1 to outsourcing. I'd rather see us go in the direction of outsourcing more apps, than integrating them. Obviously that can't be done for every app we have but Cortex is a good candidate, since it's pretty big and not an essential part of the system.