Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Stallman
1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. That is a kind of manual. Any book that explains how to use some software is a manual. One kind of manual is a _refer

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Stallman
FWIW, in my first email back to Packt I requested that they consider releasing this under a free license. Based on the response, I'm a little unclear about what the license terms are but I suppose it will be cleared up when we get the sample copies. I suggest you press them on this

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Stallman
I was wondering if you have to encouraging anyone to buy a book about GNOME from anywhere, and not just Amazon. There are two separate issues here: free manuals, and Amazon. For the sake of free software, we must not recommend non-free manuals. The issue of free manuals, like the issue o

Re: GNOME 3.8 Release Notes

2013-03-08 Thread alex diavatis
Hello Allan, I think you're missing Notifications System. - Task Switching - Apps Launching - Notifications Is something that you can't miss from any release notes. There are changes in all these three. For Example 1. Task Switching - Easier recognize apps by size (instead of Windows View) 2. A

Re: GNOME 3.8 Release Notes

2013-03-08 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've completed the first draft of the release notes [1] (albeit without screenshots). Please take a look and let me know if you spot anything that can be improved. Allan [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=gnome-3-8 -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog

Re: Release Notes Time!

2013-03-08 Thread Allan Day
This is your final call! The Release Notes are pretty much done and I'm looking to get them nailed down at the beginning of next week. If you have anything that should be included and isn't [1], please fill in the wiki page [2] asap. Allan [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/?h=g