(No bites on the version discussion, other than Emanuel's pro 5.0 vote on the bugs list, so I'm introducing a little bait into the subject line here.)
There's been some talk about dependencies and whatnot, and one of the package dependencies on one of the distros was khelpcenter. That got me thinking about the Help menu, and how we're going to make it work. Should we bundle the Rosegarden Handbook with the application, and refer to it via the help menu? If so, what browser do we use to access it? For that matter, it's SGML that used to be turned into something readable through some mysterious process I never quite understood, and it's probably not all that portable as a format in terms of just pointing $EXTERNAL_KDE3_DOCBOOK_FORMAT_AWARE_BROWSER at it to open the file. There is apparently already some mechanism in place for putting the thing online in HTML form. What do we think about just starting with the converted HTML version and using that as our source going forward? (Shelagh, I'm especially talking to you, since you just did all those big Docbook updates.) What do we think about not bundling a manual at all, and putting all the documentation online only? I rather like that idea myself, because we have traditionally managed to stay at least one step behind with a lot of the documentation, and version x.y releases with new documentation for features that were actually new in x.x. It's a bit early to be worrying about this, but this kind of thing has been my bailiwick for a long time, and I figure the least I can do to pay everyone back for doing all the heavy code lifting I couldn't manage myself is to deal with all these ugly documentation details as thanks for not letting Rosegarden die after all, and making me apologize to Julie, in particular, for being such a damn pessimist, and admit formally that I was wrong. (There you go, Julie.) Of course we're completely touched in the head if we start in on any major documentation work until after this whole thing has had a good while longer to settle down. It's OK to start thinking about how it's all going to work, and to get it in place, and perhaps even to do a bit of rewriting here and there, but NO NEW SCREENSHOTS until this has settled considerably. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
