On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:49 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 21:54 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: > > Hopefully at some point soon, we can remove > > scrollkeeper entirely and replace it. > > Oh? Sounds interesting. What With?
As tired as I am of ScrollKeeper, no amount of effort in replacing it is going to cause it to go away any time soon. I consider our documentation system to be a core part of our platform, warts and all. And I'm taking backwards compatibility on this very seriously. So even post-replacement, I will slap any distros who don't include ScrollKeeper, or a suitable replacement package that provides the same binaries. > [Just out of interest... presumably the time to discuss > across-the-platform architectural issues is before people write lots of > code, not after] Yeah, I'm not so sure about that any more. I'm becoming more and more convinced that specifications should grow out of well-specified and properly-implemented code. I've had numerous talks with Cornelius Schumacher (of KDE documentation fame) about a shared documentation system that would replace both ScrollKeeper and KDE's system. Interoperability would really kick ass here. Basically, I've complained for years that the day-to-day maintainence of Yelp has kept me from effectively working on the future. With Brent and Don picking up my slack on Yelp though, I really have no excuse. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
