Am 19.03.2012 11:44, schrieb Mario Blättermann:
> Am 19.03.2012 03:40, schrieb Jim Campbell:
>> Hi Mario,
>>
>> 2012/3/17 Mario Blättermann <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>
>>     Am 17.03.2012 23:18, schrieb Jim Campbell:
>>>     Hi Mario,
>>>
>>>     2012/3/17 Mario Blättermann <[email protected]
>>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>
>>>         Hi,
>>>
>>>         while translating the Gedit documentation I've seen that a
>>>         lot of
>>>         plugins are part of the main manual which are _not_ part of
>>>         the gedit
>>>         main package. This forces translators first to make sure
>>>         that they have
>>>         all the GUIs of the appropriate plugins translated (which
>>>         are in general
>>>         not part of the GNOME core release set).
>>>
>>>         Mallard has the ability to mix docs from different sources.
>>>         Means, we
>>>         should actually move the plugin docs to the plugin packages
>>>         (gedit-plugins and perhaps some other from third party
>>>         vendors. This is
>>>         not my first attempt to do so. Removing the plugin topics
>>>         from the base
>>>         manual would it make easier to maintain the docs anyway,
>>>         because we
>>>         don't have to mention things such as "If the xxx package is not
>>>         installed, you will be unable to use this feature".
>>>
>>>         Of course, it's too less time to get it into GNOME 3.4, but
>>>         we should
>>>         keep an eye on 3.6.
>>>
>>>         Best Regards,
>>>         Mario
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>>>
>>>
>>>     You're absolutely right. There are some plugins that are
>>>     installed by default in gedit, but some plugins are only
>>>     available when you install the gedit-plugins package.
>>>
>>>     I'll move the extra plugins (those installed in the
>>>     gedit-plugins package) into a separate repository for the next
>>>     release.
>>>
>>     Don't understand "extra repository" here. The one and only way is
>>     to move them to the gedit-plugins module and create a docs stack
>>     therein, means /help/C/ and Makefile.am and so on.
>>
>>
>> That's correct.
>>  
>>
>>     The somewhat difficult part is to assign the docs pages to the
>>     right topics and subtopics in the gedit manual. Am I right?
>>
>>
>> Hm, well, we would still link these plugin-related pages into a
>> plugins-related section in the regular portions of the gedit
>> "manual," so I think you're on the right track. I don't think this
>> will be too difficult, though.
>>
>> I'll make this change early in the 3.6 release cycle so that we have
>> plenty of time to make the change and test things out. I'm not as
>> familiar with how translations are handled, so I'll also make certain
>> that existing translations can be migrated as part of this change.
> Would be really simple: Once the docs stack in gedit-plugins has been
> established, we have to add the language related folders from gedit,
> too. In the "Damned Lies" pages the existing translations will be
> merged with the new pot file, and the strings which are no longer used
> will be commented out automatically. After that, translators can
> update the files and remove the unused strings.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any other questions, and thanks for your help
>> in translating the docs, Mario.  : )
> There are at least two more applications which have to be migrated
> that way. The eog manual also comes with things which has to be moved
> to the eog-plugins package. And Epiphany needs a rewritten manual
> anyway. Any topics regarding the extensions from the
> epiphany-extensions package should land in that package.
>
BTW, an obviously working example you can find in the anjuta-extras
package. The header in /help/Makefile.am links to the Anjuta manual,
which is a sign that scintilla.page will be shown inside this main
documentation and not as an extra (stand-alone) manual.

Best Regards,
Mario
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