On 30 Nov 2002, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:15, Leon Brooks wrote: > > WRT the recent flameish to-and-fro about Microsoft's fonts, why not put up a > > page on (say) MandrakeUser for each release of Mandrake that has links to > > ways to `tart up' your Mandrake desktop, and make the point that these links > > have been found useful by Mandrake Users but are _completely_ unsupported by > > Mandrake themselves. Put an icon on the default homepage that points to it. > > I'd call it something like `Free Extras' or `Tune Up'. > > > > That way you could link to things like RPMs for Keramik (which amazes my > > Windows-wielding friends), Mozilla themes such as `Sky Pilot', 'Internet > > Keramik will be in 9.1, anyway. It's the default KDE theme from 3.1 > onwards. > > > Explorer' (`That's _Linux_?' is a typical stunned question from an > > unbeliever) and `Orbit 3+1', Windows font downloaders and whatever else > > Why'd you WANT Mozilla to look like its inferior competitor, though? :) > > > turned up and happened to work. > > A good idea overall, though. I like it.
I think that somethinng needs to replace mandrakeuser.org, some sort of collaborative documentation site. Some stuff could go under 'desktop eye candy' or similar, but it could cover many more topics. At the moment there is a lot of Mandrake-specific documentation out there, but it's spread out, not proof-read by a third party, not consistent. Adding stuff to Mandrakeuser.org was too laborious, some sort of wiki-type interface is required. Denis said it is the next thing he wants to implement for the Club, so it might be an idea to get interested parties together on this. I am involved in another project which would both contribute to and benefit from something like this. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
