Re: [Usability] HIG Clarification for Close Without Saving button

2005-02-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:41 +, Patrick Costello wrote: Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:00 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote: I'm working on evaluating (and hopefully improving) the consistency of save confirmation dialogs in Gnome [1] and there's a bug in the HIG

Re: Latest CVS version of User Guide

2005-07-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:09 +1000, Andrew Burton wrote: G'day all Where can I download the latest CVS version of the Desktop User Guide (http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.10/index.html)? cvs.gnome.org doesn't seem to have it (or it's hiding somewhere!) I've noticed quite a few

Re: Evolution contact editor title changes

2005-07-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:36 +0530, Arunprakash wrote: Hi, The patch for UI bug #235830 sets the title of the contact editor as Contact Editor - file name. This is set while opening existing contacts also. This was not earlier. The file name is the file name of the contact. Does the

gnome-doc-utils string addition

2005-08-01 Thread Shaun McCance
I've added an xref formatter to gnome-doc-utils for prefaces. The default formatting is exactly the same as for glossaries. _msg msgidpreface.xref/msgid msgstrtitle//msgstr /_msg -- Shaun ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org

The User Guide Needs You

2005-09-04 Thread Shaun McCance
In the last few release cycles, our documentation has rotted. It's been incredibly difficult to get new contributors hacking docs quickly, in part due to a high barrier to entry. In order to encourage collaborative editing, I've placed an outline for the User Guide on the wiki:

Re: Sarma: Live Documentation Editor (was Re: The User Guide Needs You)

2005-09-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 08:48 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote: Hi Shaun, Yesterday at 23:19, Shaun McCance wrote: In the last few release cycles, our documentation has rotted. It's been incredibly difficult to get new contributors hacking docs quickly, in part due to a high barrier to entry

Re: String review

2005-09-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 20:49 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: Hi, For quite some time, the general inconsistency of strings in the various GNOME modules has irritated me. For example, let's just look at some strings in GNOME: [snip] You'll notice: - the varying messagestyle: [do] it?, Would

Re: Making our documentation more cohesive

2005-10-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 10:15 -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: On 10/15/05, Brent Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Standardize the titles of each document by removing version numbers, fixing capitalization, removing unnecessary articles and adding a type to the title such as Manual,

Re: yelp not picking ne locale from omf file

2005-11-16 Thread Shaun McCance
I'm CCing gnome-i18n. Translators, there's a special message to you at the bottom. On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:57 +0545, Pawan Chitrakar wrote: i have copied user-guide-C.omf file to user-guide-ne.omf file and changed the location of docbook file and language code to ne then i updated

Re: yelp not picking ne locale from omf file

2005-11-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:37 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: ScrollKeeper is hosted on SourceForge. I haven't seen any of the maintainers around in a long while, and the ChangeLog shows no updates in the last seven months. But hopefully we'll find a way to get Nepali support in and get a release

Re: Repost, really need help: Need to know where the Gnome User manual resides in CVS

2005-12-07 Thread Shaun McCance
Hey Alexander, Very sorry for the late reply. The fact is, nobody really knows how everything works at this point. The Documentation Project is in complete disarray. On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 16:32 +0200, Alexander Shopov wrote: Please guys, I really need help. I have a Bulgarian translation

Re: GNOME 2.4 Screenshots Web page is broken - who's responsible?

2005-12-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 00:17 -0500, Fred Koschara wrote: All of the screenshot links on the Web site at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/screenshots.html are broken. I would have sent this message to an email address associated with Web site maintenance, but if there *is* such an

Re: Gnome User Guide - Avances - 21/DIC/2005

2005-12-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 23:07 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Daniel Espinosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is to help in the improviment of the documentation avariable, and to the manager of the page above to use, comment or modify this work, and finaly to include in the sources.

Re: Gnome User Guide

2005-12-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 23:07 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The User Guide is horribly out of date. And without an active community of good technical writers, I can't make any guarantees as to when it will cease to suck. I've checked out

Re: Nautilus documentation update

2005-12-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:28 +0100, karderio wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:07 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 17:32 +0100, karderio wrote: Lastly, the image you've submitted for the link emblem doesn't match what I have on my system. Emblems change with system

Re: Nautilus documentation update

2005-12-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:37 +0100, karderio wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:11 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: I noticed .../gnome-user-docs/gnome-users-guide is the 1.4 documentation, is that because GNOME 1 is still maintained in CVS ? The intention was that they would be two separate

Re: Yelp Help documents

2006-01-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:44 -0700, Brent Smith wrote: I've written a manual for Yelp that uses gnome-doc-utils. Please let me know if it works for you and if you think certain sections need addressed or additional topics need added. Hi Brent, Thanks, we've needed some Yelp documentation for

Re: Can I work in the Wiki for GNOME User Guide or I for got it?

2006-01-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:09 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Daniel Espinosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying change the contents and order in the Gnome User Guide, and becouse I don't have enough time, for the moment, to study the XML DocBook and how to create or edit

Re: Updating the Accessibility Guide

2006-01-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 23:17 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. In section 2.1.1.3, about changing the size of the cursor. It currently says: Select one of the following cursor size options: Small Medium Large Cursor or pointer? :) From the

Re: Small change in the clock applet

2006-01-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:05 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, January 25, 2006 16:24, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, in some locales, it's not even possible to show 12-hour since

Re: scrollkeeper categories will put new users off the documentation

2006-01-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:56 +, Matthew East wrote: Dear doc-lists, I just noticed a new category has come into Yelp: GNU Info files. While I applaud the fact that more information is available from Yelp, it now means that there are two categories on the front page of our GNOME help

Re: Gnome-utils branched to gnome-2-14

2006-02-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:20 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote: Il giorno lun, 06/02/2006 alle 10.26 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto: On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 08:50 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 06 février 2006 à 00:26 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : Hi all, I've branched

Re: building GNOME vs writing docs

2006-02-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 12:07 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Our situation is that we need writers. We need to lower the barriers to entry, and one of them is expecting new doc writers to build themselves a complete GNOME from CVS before they can write documentation. My experiences would

Re: our online docs

2006-02-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 13:34 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I've just noticed that the most recent version of the gnome manual online at http://www.gnome.org/learn/ is 2.10. Also, while on the subject of docs online, could we do something about the masses of dross we have at the top of

Re: our online docs

2006-02-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:15 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we used my stylesheets, this stuff would automatically be put onto a separate title page. Can we? Absolutely. If any issues come up, then we just need to tell me, and I can get

Re: building GNOME vs writing docs

2006-02-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:29 +, Simos Xenitellis wrote: O/H Shaun McCance έγραψε: On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 12:07 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Our situation is that we need writers. We need to lower the barriers to entry, and one of them is expecting new doc writers to build

Re: Spicing up stylesheets

2006-02-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:35 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: On 09/02/2006, at 8:16 AM, Matthew East wrote (in introduction): I've been looking at the possibility of spicing up the yelp look a bit. I've only done a bit of brief experimentation, I thought I'd ask first and see if this

Re: Spicing up stylesheets

2006-02-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 16:56 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But somehow, somebody thought it would be a good idea to mark hyperlinks with underlines, seriously hurting readability. It's become such an accepted idiom that you create

Bugzilla and documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Shaun McCance
Most of you are probably familiar with the fake accounts we have in bugzilla. They have account names along the lines of product[EMAIL PROTECTED] These are really handy, because they don't tie your bugs to any particular person. This is especially useful when you have a high turnover, like we

Re: Bugzilla and documentation

2006-02-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there a tendency to standartize the directories of the documentation in all official Gnome modules - similarly to the position of translations - in po* directories? (I do remember some of the Gnome modules having different

Re: Bugzilla and documentation

2006-02-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:35 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le dimanche 12 février 2006 à 17:28 +, Joachim Noreiko a écrit : --- Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 12 février 2006 à 00:11 -0600, Shaun McCance a écrit : Here is a list of modules that contain (or should

Re: Preferences headings

2006-02-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:21 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I went through the headings in the Preferences and tidied them up a bit. I removed the initial verbs that didn't really add any meaning and took up most of the navigation pane: 'Configuring', 'Setting', 'Choosing' etc. Now they all

Re: user guide update

2006-02-13 Thread Shaun McCance
Big thanks to Joachim, Daniel, and everybody else who's taken the initiative to Get Stuff Done. On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 20:14 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Just a quick update of what I'm doing... I've just added the section 'Giving Focus to a Window' to CVS. Thanks Daniel for your work on

Re: Bugzilla and documentation

2006-02-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:10 +0100, Paolo Maggi wrote: Hi, gedit/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Is it ok for you if we create a [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias? Sure. It's entirely up to the module maintainers. Maintainers are perfectly free to use accounts or aliases specific to their project, rather

Re: [Usability] Mini UI reviews

2006-02-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:34 +, Calum Benson wrote: On 16 Feb 2006, at 14:43, Victor Osadci wrote: Any chance of having a review for Epiphany ? There was a lot of work on the bookmarks system, toolbars, preferences, etc., and a review would be quite useful for the upcoming

gnome-user-docs and gnome-doc-utils

2006-02-18 Thread Shaun McCance
I've just migrated gnome-user-docs to gnome-doc-utils. It works: builds, installs, passes distcheck, all that fun stuff. Do we want to convert the documents to use XInclude instead of SYSTEM entities? (Joachim, this question is mostly to you.) -- Shaun

GNOME User Documentation 2.13.1

2006-02-19 Thread Shaun McCance
As it is written in the Book of Gnome: And in the final days of the First Steward, the people will have grown weary, and the kingdom shall be barren. But from the Majestic Isles, there shall come a hero, and through him the people will be galvanized. From death, there shall come life. On

Re: Does String Freeze apply to Documentation?

2006-02-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:43 +, Matthew East wrote: Hi all, I have a quick question about the string freeze: does it apply to documentation? By the sound of the activity on the list, it doesn't: so when is documentation freeze? Or is there no freeze? Obviously, translators will work on

gnome-user-docs 2.13.1.1

2006-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
Matthias pointed out that the OMF files in gnome-user-docs weren't being installed. In fact, there were no OMF files, because I forgot to add the .omf.in files to CVS. I've added them and rolled a new release. Since there were no real changes, aside from build stupidity, I've versioned it at

Re: Updated Nautilus Section

2006-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 01:34 +1300, John Stowers wrote: Hey Everyone, I have attached my first pass at the updated nautilus documentation. Please comment on what you think of this. I am sorry I did not submit a patch against the old gonautilus docs, It was very large so I thought it

Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

2006-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:34 +, Calum Benson wrote: On 21 Feb 2006, at 14:12, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I can *sort of* see the reason for this, because you get simpler items in the menu, eg 'Archive Manager'. But the policy isn't carried through system wide, because when you choose

Re: What's the plan for the user guide?

2006-02-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to help a little on the User Guide. I have more experience now than the last time I worked on GNOME 2.8. Let me know what I could do. Sincerely, Angela Boyle Hi Angela! How are things going for you in the real

Re: gnome-screensaver use circles in password field

2006-02-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:03 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: Hey Elijah, Elijah Newren wrote: Does this affection documentation at all? If not, this is simple enough so here's one of two approvals. I'm not really sure if there is any documentation that refers to or shows asterisks

Re: What's down, doc? Standartize - standartize ...

2006-02-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:37 +0200, Alexander Shopov wrote: Hi guys, This will certainly wait for the months after the March release and subversion migration but I *do* think that we should all press to get the structure for the documentation of packages heavily standardized. The

Re: Translator credits in docs - HOW to do it

2006-02-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:04 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: Hi Al, (this is more of a question for gnome-doc-devel-list) Yesterday at 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. This obviously does not apply to the credits for translations of docs, for there is a special syntax: NAME EMAIL,

Re: What's down, doc? Standartize - standartize ...

2006-03-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:17 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. In fact, I generally push for a two-directory layout, like so: /sound-juicer/help/sound-juicer/C/sound-juicer.xml The downside of that is once I start working on two

Re: Translator credits in docs - HOW to do it

2006-03-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:15 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Bulgarian Gnome translation team we have standartized on the following way of writing the credits: Translatorname In Bulgarian

Re: What's down, doc? Standartize - standartize ...

2006-03-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:25 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: On 28/02/2006, at 11:07 PM, Alexander Shopov wrote (in part): 1. We have po* subdirectories to hold the translations. We should expect the help to always be in help* I can definitely represent the less-experienced doc. translator

Re: What's down, doc? Standartize - standartize ...

2006-03-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 23:17 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: For gnome-doc-utils using modules, a minimal commit setup might be: module/help/Makefile.am (to add your language to DOC_LINGUAS) module/help/ChangeLog module/ChangeLog (if there is no former) module/help/vi/ where you pick

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 14:14 +0200, Victor Osadci wrote: Hi, Brent Smith wrote:[Wed Mar 08 2006, 07:57:49AM EET] I've been working on generating some new PDFs for the documentation in the gnome-user-docs package. I've come up with some build scripts[1] that generate some decent

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 09:54 +0200, Sean Wheller wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 07:57, Brent Smith wrote: I've been working on generating some new PDFs for the documentation in the gnome-user-docs package. I've come up with some build scripts[1] that generate some decent output using

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:42 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:39:07PM +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: What should they be called? Applet is in the Style Guide: http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html If there's a better term,

Re: Our docs online

2006-03-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:37 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I've just been pointed to Ubuntu's docs, which are online in both the stable and unstable versions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam This really puts us to shame. Go to http://www.gnome.org/support/ and you find the user

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 07:33 +0200, Sean Wheller wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:32, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote: I don't think PDF is well suited for on screen reading. Font rendering and glyph spacing make document harder to read than when it's in html. PDF is every bit as readable as any

Re: Flicking through docs (was: Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide)

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 07:24 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:25 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: However, I do see your point about wanting to mouse-wheel through the whole thing to see what catches your eye. After

Re: Build utilities?

2006-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 07:49 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun wrote on bugzilla... Oh, I meant to say something else too. I've said it before, but I'm going to keep saying it over and over and over until everybody knows not to

Re: contributing to GNOME section

2006-03-27 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:12 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Shaun, is it ok to add a new section to the UG for 2.14.1 on contributing to GNOME and joining the project -- cross-linking to the feedback docs for now? [1] My reasoning is that 2.14.1 will go into Ubuntu Dapper, which will be

Re: error in the gnome release notes

2006-03-30 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:05 -0800, Ryan Paul wrote: I recently noticed an error in the GNOME 2.14 release notes, and it has been bothering me. I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to bring it up, but I'd like somebody to correct it. On the page titled What's New For Users

Re: Live CD 2.14

2006-03-31 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:13 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: I wonder, how much does this Linux/X/GNOME/Distro stack hurt us, and how much does it help us? We normally change very Ubuntu-specific stuff in the LiveCD, where that is

Re: Getting the info

2006-04-04 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:30 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Recent bug report mentions in passing: This search was performed because there was no help text for the Editable menu accelerators checkbox in the Menu and Toolbar Preferences config dialog How on earth is a docs writer supposed to

Re: Getting the info

2006-04-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:21 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:30 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Recent bug report mentions in passing: This search was performed because there was no help text for the Editable menu

Re: GConf Key Reference

2006-05-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:15 -0600, Brent Smith wrote: I've been playing around with python, libxml2, libxslt and gconf schemas files... This is what I've come up with: http://www.gnome.org/~bmsmith/gconf-keys/index.html I was wondering if there were any opinions about generating a key

Re: GConf Key Reference

2006-05-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 12:05 -0600, Brent Smith wrote: Unfortunately, a lot of cases of backwards-compatibility breaks (and forwards-compatibility breaks) just won't be detectable with any sort of script that I can think of, and that would be really nice data to have. (Not so that we can

Web Designers Wanted

2006-06-09 Thread Shaun McCance
I've just posted the following call for mockups to my blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/edit/shaunm/2006/06/09/0 Basically, I'm looking for talented designers to submit mockups for our help pages. I've been largely the sole designer of the layout for quite some time, and I think it'll be good to get

Re: libxml tutorial translation to spanish

2006-06-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:44 -0500, jorge alberto garcia gonzalez wrote: Hello, my name is Jorge Alberto Garcia Gonzalez, i have bee searching a good tutorial about libxml o xerces because i have been working in a configuration tool for multiterminals linux machines with the faketty module,

Re: yelp accessibility for people with disabilities

2006-06-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 13:52 -0700, Lynn Monsanto wrote: Hi all, I'm working on Orca, a screen reader and magnifier for people with disabilities (see http://live.gnome.org/Orca). I'm working on accessibility to yelp, and discovered that yelp uses mozilla to present help information. A

Re: Wiki user guide

2006-07-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:19 +0200, karderio wrote: Hi :o) On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:14 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:02 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- karderio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this seems somewhat similar to what we had already : an index

Re: Wiki user guide

2006-07-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 15:16 -0400, Peter Williams wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: NAME MY XML FORMAT! How about the ... Help Text Markup Language. Shouldn't cause any confusion there! Seriously, I'm really interested in helping Mallard get off the ground

Re: Style guide: terminology

2006-07-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 20:26 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Bug 325806 reminds me that the Style Guide section on standard terms needs a polish. (Ok, the WHOLE style guide needs work, but let's do this in chunks we can feasibly handle!) Debating each term on this list or the usability list

Re: Successor to DocBook

2006-07-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:41 +0100, Matthew East wrote: * Don Scorgie: (Resend. Hopefully it'll go through this time) On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:19 +0200, karderio wrote: snip Now here's everybody's first chance to get

Re: Wiki user guide

2006-07-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:55 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now here's everybody's first chance to get in on the fun: The code name for the project-as-a-whole is Project Mallard. This is sort of an inside poke at DocBook. O. NOW I

Re: Successor to DocBook

2006-07-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:13 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:04 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:41 +0100, Matthew East wrote: * Don Scorgie: (Resend. Hopefully it'll go through this time) On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:45 -0500, Shaun McCance

Re: Successor to DocBook

2006-07-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:53 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote: Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had originally intended to make a topic-oriented format that used DocBook as its within-the-page content model. Use the same block and inline elements, etc. Years of working with DocBook

Re: admiting to our flaws

2006-07-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:11 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: The recent rewrite of the Ataxx docs raises a point: When the Animation checkbox is selected, the pieces will visually change when captured. The animation is different for each tile set. [NOTE: This feature is really buggy. When the

Re: Successor to DocBook

2006-07-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:34 +0200, karderio wrote: [snipsnip snip, here's what's left] It's not really so sudden. The idea of replacing DocBook has been floating around for years now. Discussions have happened in lots of places, including IRC. (Sidebar: somebody please create

Re: Successor to DocBook

2006-07-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:32 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Karl Eichwalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not just give all the elements simple and consistent names to begin with? Nobody can even remember the DocBook elements, so

Re: Comment on GNOME/GTK developer docs

2006-07-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:00 +0100, Andrew Jeffries wrote: Hi everyone (and thanks to Karderio who pointed me to this list), I've had a comment for a while on the GNOME/GTK developer docs but never known where to send it. I'm an infrequent GNOME/GTK developer and am by no means an expert.

SVN Migration

2006-07-15 Thread Shaun McCance
http://svn.gnome.org/~rossg/migration-priority-2.list yelp, gnome-doc-utils, and gnome-user-docs are all in the priority 2 list. I've been told that these should *probably* be migrated by the middle of next week. Just, you know, FYI. -- Shaun ___

String change in Yelp

2006-07-26 Thread Shaun McCance
I've changed the string Sound Vision to Sound Video. This string is used as a category for documentation, and corresponds directly to the applications in the Sound Video applications menu. -- Shaun ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list

Re: gnome-applets/multiload : documentation change

2006-07-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 19:40 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Cool. BTW, this bug was set as assigned to Shaun. Is gnome-applets docs component set to do that automatically? It's not a good idea. If you want the docs team to be notified of bugs, set the docs component of your product to

Re: completed gataxx doc

2006-07-27 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:02 -0700, Ryan Paul wrote: Hi, I just finished the new gataxx docs. I have attached a patch to this e-mail as well as the complete docbook xml file. Comments and criticism are appreciated. Did I do everything right? Hi Ryan, This looks really good, though I didn't

Re: Changing Linux with GNU/Linux or GNU

2006-08-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:34 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: Shaun McCance wrote: I think you severely over-estimate my power. I can't force people to do anything. I think I'm not. I understand that you might feel uneasy about this, but it is your duty. Fearless leaders take decisions

Re: Changing Linux with GNU/Linux or GNU

2006-08-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:59 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:51 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Meanwhile, if the maintainers who deal with substantial issues in the code don't want to fix these problems, that

Re: Changing Linux with GNU/Linux or GNU

2006-08-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:33 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:51 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: I am not saying you don't have my support. What I'm saying is that I'm not the silver bullet that you think I am. Maintainers will WONTFIX a use GNU/Linux

Re: automated screenshots (was Re: more doc work, Re: completed gataxx doc)

2006-08-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 19:59 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 19:51 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: snip How much can DogTail automate? Can everything about how a screenshot should be made be codified into a script? -- eg window size, document contents, menus,

Re: automated screenshots (was Re: more doc work, Re: completed gataxx doc)

2006-08-04 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:02 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: scrubbing all the accumulated CC's. Either they're on the doc-list or they won't be interested Hi, On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:36 -0700, Ryan Paul wrote: I just finished putting together a simple proof-of-concept utility that

Re: I need to join the doc. team and translation team.

2006-08-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:45 +0800, Mustapha Abubakar wrote: Hello G-NOME family. I wish to join the documentation team and also the translation team please I need friends to put me through. You've come at just the right time. We're now in the second half of our release cycle leading up to the

Re: new apps without docs: policy request

2006-08-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:06 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:49 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: snip I think this went nicely, and I expect the release team will continue doing this. In light of this new process, I've been thinking over the last week of proposing

Re: Request for Freeze Break (Evolution)

2006-08-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:15 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/21/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 20 août 2006, à 18:00, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit : Hi, I have added icons to the new quick search menu in

Re: String change for Tomboy (patch included)

2006-08-25 Thread Shaun McCance
string.Format (Catalog.GetString (b{0}/b of b{1}/b Sticky Notes + were successfully imported into Tomboy.), numNotesImported, numNotesTotal) Shouldn't this be using GetPluralString? -- Shaun

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Shaun McCance I want the query string to be in the common key=value form, like http://api.gnome.org/yelp/forums?query=this+is+a+test It should silently ignore any keys other than query, so that we can add information

Re: gcalctool Updated screenshots

2006-09-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 08:24 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote: Hi Don, It was brought to my attention on IRC that the gcalctool manual was missing a screenshot (gcalctool_advanced_window.png). Since all the screenshots in the manual are from different themes, I spent a few minutes recreating

RE: License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide (Re: Incorporating Gnomedocs into ours) sec=unclassified

2006-09-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:42 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Stoffers, Robert LAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other alternatives are: (1) split the Gnome material out again, and (2) relicense our desktop guide in a way which allows us to use the Gnome material, or (3) ask

RE: License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide (Re: Incorporating Gnomedocs into ours) sec=unclassified

2006-09-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:04 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:42 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-September/thread.html I think the much bigger question is, why does

Re: Future licence suggestions (was : License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide)

2006-09-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 20:57 +0200, karderio wrote: Hi :o) On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 11:16 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: In the end, maybe we should just switch to a license that people hate less. I have been pondering documentation licences since the beginning of this thread, considering

Re: Future licence suggestions (was : License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide)

2006-09-09 Thread Shaun McCance
Let me make a few things perfectly clear: * This has nothing to do with Debian. In fact, I was voicing concerns about the FDL well before people at Debian were. You have no sense of history in this conversation. * You stated some insignificiant part of the Free Software community hates

Re: Discussion draft for GNU FDL 2.0 released

2006-09-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 21:34 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: The Free Software Foundation has just announced the publication of the first discussion draft for version 2 of the GNU Free Documentation License: http://www.fsf.org/news/gfdl-dd1.html Thanks for the notice, Yavor. The text so far

gnome-doc-utils branched for 2.16

2006-10-09 Thread Shaun McCance
gnome-doc-utils has been branched for gnome-2-16 -- Shaun ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

Re: Updating our own docs

2006-10-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:15 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Since now is the quiet time of the cycle, I figure we should look at our own documentation -- the GDP Handbook and the Style Guide... I'm going to start going through the bugs currently files in these.

Re: GDP Handbook -- Getting Started

2006-10-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:38 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: There's a big section of the Hadbook called Getting Started. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook/gdp-handbook/ar01s03.html I've been around for two release cycles now, and even now, it's enough to scare me off. It

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