On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Dylan McCall<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Evan,
Hi Dylan. I'm cross posting this to the Ubuntu Installer mailing list and the Ubiquity Slideshow Team mailing list, as I'd like to include any interested parties in this discussion. > I just noticed something horrifying (and confusing) with the > UbiquitySlideshow blueprint and specification. > > Basically, we have two wiki pages :o Indeed, the Ubiquity Slideshow team seem to have taken the specification from the 7.04 cycle and made edits from there, whereas I built on the one from the 9.04 cycle that we discussed at UDS Mountain View (which, confusingly, was the same name for the 7.04 UDS). Not a problem though, I think we can reasonably merge the specifications and combine our efforts to make sure this happens in some form for Karmic. I am however, concerned that rendering HTML might be a bit heavy for what we're trying to accomplish. Assuming we wanted to use python-webkit for this, we would have to promote it to main. I'm also concerned that we either have to restrict designers to layout each slide to a rigid specification, or force them to understand a specific set of HTML tags. Also, out of my own curiosity, how do you plan on providing translation support? At UDS Barcelona I had a discussion with Ted Gould of the Desktop Experience team and the Inkscape project, and he mentioned that the Inkscape project is able to provide translations in SVG by simply putting an underscore in the tag name and processing the text before rendering. It should be fairly straightfoward to implement and we already have rsvg on the Ubuntu CDs. I am not suggesting that we must implement it this way, though I do think it is the better approach for the reasons outlined. Still, I am open to the opinions of others on this. I also spoke with Gerry Carr, head of Platform Marketing at Canonical, at UDS and he expressed interest in taking on the task of creating the messaging for each slide. This was a task that the Design and User Experience team had originally wanted to take on in the 9.04 cycle, but they could not fit it on their schedule and thus the specification was deferred. Whatever we agree on, we'll have to act quickly as the deadline for specifications to be approved is Friday. So, thoughts? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
