Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Stormy Peters
We've been talking about doing usability studies on GNOME. Maybe it makes sense to do one on the website. One of the personas being tested could be someone who runs into a problem in the documentation and want to give feedback. Stormy 2009/2/9 Matteo Settenvini matteo...@member.fsf.org On lun,

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/2/9 Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org: On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 10:16 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Are we just waiting for some corporate sponsors to pick up the docs where Sun left them many years ago ? Corporate contributions to the documentation team would be welcome, but picking them

Willing to help with documeting projects

2009-02-10 Thread Joseph Aseo
I am interested in participating in the GNOME documentation project. My professional experience includes creating developer and administrator documentation for companies such as Sun Microsystems and Novell, but I have also participated as a contributor to the Liferay community wiki and the

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2009-02-09, 17:37 GMT, Dan Winship wrote: 1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it. 2. In fact, users can't read anything, and if they could, they wouldn't want to. As much as I like Joel and his writing (and particulary this one about user interface),

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 13:44 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: not even clear in the GDP documentation how to generate a damn thing from the .xml file. You don't need to generate anything. yelp renders DocBook XML files directly, though I only manage to do that by dragging and dropping from nautilus to

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Gil Forcada
El dl 09 de 02 de 2009 a les 19:14 +, en/na Alberto Ruiz va escriure: 2009/2/9 Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org: On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 10:16 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Are we just waiting for some corporate sponsors to pick up the docs where Sun left them many years ago ?

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:10 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 13:44 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: not even clear in the GDP documentation how to generate a damn thing from the .xml file. gnome-doc-tool html foo.xml OK, our documentation in general is outdated, and that's not

Re: String addition to gtk+

2009-02-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center takao.fujiw...@sun.com wrote: Thinking about this, my suggestion is the comment line rather than msgctxt. I think a translator comment is fine in this case. There is no other occurrence of Miscellaneous in the gtk message

Re: UI freeze break request: incoming muc invitation in Empathy

2009-02-10 Thread Frederic Peters
[adding gnome-doc-list in CC'] Guillaume Desmottes wrote: We'd like to merge a branch [1] implementing incoming multi users chat invitation support in Empathy [2]. This branch adds a blinking icon in the notification area when user receives a muc invitation and a small dialog asking if he

Re: UI freeze break request: incoming muc invitation in Empathy

2009-02-10 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 17:45 +0100 schrieb Frederic Peters: Guillaume Desmottes wrote: We'd like to merge a branch [1] implementing incoming multi users chat invitation support in Empathy [2]. This branch adds a blinking icon in the notification area when user receives a muc

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Natan Yellin
2009/2/9 Matteo Settenvini matteo...@member.fsf.org On lun, 2009-02-09 at 11:00 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: We do get volunteers on a semi-regular basis, but we inevitably lose them. It would be useful to identify why we lose them and fix those problems. I'll readily admit that I'm

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Frederic Peters
Natan Yellin wrote: I gave a talk at the Boston Summit about problems with the developer website. Even though most of the issues have been fixed, the slides are still relevant to other parts of gnome.org. http://live.gnome.org/ProblemsWithBeginnerDocumentation Good; could you report issues

String freeze break for gnome-media

2009-02-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
We only used to show playing applications in the new gnome-volume-control, now we also show the recording apps. See this for details: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568900 Cheers ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-10 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/2/9 Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com: On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:14 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I've been thinking how hard would it be to have a very basic webkit based editor that would convert the html it generates into docbook? Impossible, or crappy at best. HTML doesn't know that

Re: String freeze break for gnome-media

2009-02-10 Thread Claude Paroz
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 18:08 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : We only used to show playing applications in the new gnome-volume-control, now we also show the recording apps. See this for details: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568900 You meant UI freeze break, I suppose. String

Re: String freeze break for gnome-media

2009-02-10 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 18:08 + schrieb Bastien Nocera: We only used to show playing applications in the new gnome-volume-control, now we also show the recording apps. See this for details: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568900 I'm fine with this. R-T approval 1 of 2 for

Re: String freeze break for gnome-media

2009-02-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 00:29 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 18:08 + schrieb Bastien Nocera: We only used to show playing applications in the new gnome-volume-control, now we also show the recording apps. See this for details: