[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/01/11 01:06, Larry Gusaas a écrit : Hi Larry, There is no Taskbar on a Mac. The correct term is the Dock. There is no launcher drawer. An icon for the Downloads folder is located in the Dock. (Folders in the Dock are referred to as “stacks.”) Please use correct terminology for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is there a generic term that covers taskbar, dock, panel? Many users will see all these things as being very much alike. Geeks know that they are completely different of course but many people don't even know the name for whichever one they have been using for years. I think taskbar

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Davies
Despite a couple of people prefering dialog-box i think we have agreed that dialog is better for us because it is easier to make all documentation and help consistent if we use dialog. The problem with pop-ups is that there really are so many different kinds and they do sometimes need to be

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Barbara, On 12/01/2011 01:42, Barbara Duprey wrote: [...] OK, thanks. Sounds as if we should change that as we go. And we also seem agreed on dialog rather than dialog box -- right? That is what is used in the help files. - For contextual menu/context menu: Contextual menu doesn't

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/01/11 10:24, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, As far as the Mac goes, Larry is right. The vocabulary is pretty specific, and people on Mac don't generally refer to Taskbar, Drawer, etc. Ever since OSX came into being, the UI has remained essentially unchanged, so those specific terms are all

[libreoffice-documentation] alfresco links

2011-01-12 Thread Jeremy Cartwright
To create a link in alfresco, navigate to the content item you wish linked select the drop down arrow beneath its icon select copy, then go to directory you wish the link present go to navigator panel click 'Shelf' click on icon 'Paste as Link' This would aid in the implementation of a group

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] alfresco links

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi Jeremy, :-) On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 22:54, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.com wrote: To create a link in alfresco, navigate to the content item you wish linked select the drop down arrow beneath its icon select copy, then go to directory you wish the link present go to navigator

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/12/2011 4:32 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Barbara, On 12/01/2011 01:42, Barbara Duprey wrote: [...] OK, thanks. Sounds as if we should change that as we go. And we also seem agreed on dialog rather than dialog box -- right? That is what is used in the help files. - For contextual

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 1/12/2011 1:14 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, it seems that context menu is the preferred choice. Thanks! Sometime around twenty years ago, Microsoft and Apple employed differing forms--context versus contextual--in their documentation. I forgot which one used which. Other developers

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Davies
Ahh, good good :) I think they were talking about specifically Mac documentation. So, i completely reverse my previous comment about this (fwiw) and now agree with using dock or whatever is correct rather than trying to use Windows terms. Many apologies for my previous post Larry! Many

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/01/12 6:49 AM Alexander Thurgood wrote: I agree, however, that completely rewriting the documentation / guides, etc, just to take into account the specificities of Mac vocabulary is not a route that I am going to go down. If Larry wants to make Mac specific guides just for that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:12 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011/01/12 6:49 AM Alexander Thurgood wrote: I agree, however, that completely rewriting the documentation / guides, etc, just to take into account the specificities of Mac vocabulary is not a route that I am going to go down. If

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) It would be interesting to see how Sophie's offered content could be incorporated into the Alfresco site, to make it a reference resource available to docs workers. Would you have time for and feel like investigating that, by any chance, Barbara? David Nelson On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi Larry, :-) Unfortunately, we just don't have enough active team members, at the moment, to develop platform-specific documentation. Right now, documentation is being sourced from oooauthors.org and adapted to the LibreOffice team's needs for LibreOffice. So, if that oooauthors.org content

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] xkcd: Good Code

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:31, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: This applies to documentation as well. Cheers, Jean http://xkcd.com/844/ Very cute. ;-) David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/01/12 8:52 PM David Nelson wrote: At that time, we'd need some Mac users on the team to get involved and help us provide content that is OK for the Mac community... You could, for instance, post-edit drafted documentation and augment it with Mac-related content (shortcut tables, etc.).

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi Larry, :-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:24, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I get real tired, smiley or no smiley of being told to do it myself when making suggestions to open source projects. People who work on Open Source projects sometimes get tired of being told how to do their

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi Larry, :-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:24, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I get real tired, smiley or no smiley of being told to do it myself when making suggestions to open source projects. People

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi Hal, :-) Sorry, Hal, I don't agree with you. I only invited Larry in the friendliest way to get involved in remedying shortcomings with regard to Mac info in LibreOffice documentation. Larry replied, Whenever I notice something that is incorrect I will let you know. The real question is do

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/01/12 9:55 PM David Nelson wrote: Hi Larry, :-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:24, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I get real tired, smiley or no smiley of being told to do it myself when making suggestions to open source projects. People who work on Open Source projects