Packaging the FAQ Guide (was #ubuntu-doc report for 2004-01-06)

[Sean Wheller]

On Monday 10 January 2005 18:09, John Levin wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2005, at 07:12, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > Yes, if they have GNOME installed. My concern in for future
> > compatability. As
> > we know, Ubuntu will eventually include KDE as a desktop. At which
> > point,
> > should a use install KDE and not GNOME, then none of the XML documents
> > will
> > be available. In which case it is good to install HTML.
> >
> > So, while it is not urgent to package static HTML versions for now, we
> > must
> > keep inmind possible future options.
>
> On the subject of desktops and compatibility, please don't forget the
> smaller desktops like IceWM, XFCE etc. There's been a number of threads
> on the user list about ubuntu on lower spec machines, where Gnome is
> just too heavy. Whether there is an 'official' ubuntu-lite or not, it
> seems a safe bet that there will be significant numbers of
> non-gnome/kde users.
>
> HTML is the simplest answer for covering all desktops.

Good point John,

This makes me think that we should rather remove the window frame from screen 
capts. It does not look the best, but the picture information still serves 
the same purposes. This will give a greater level of indirection to our 
screen capts across desktops. A nice side-effect will be a very, very small 
reduction in file size.

However, I am afraid we will not be able to overcome the menu actions problem 
so easily. Under normal conditions one would document according the specific 
nuances of each desktop and profile the documents. I am not sure we have the 
manpower for this at present. Perhaps once we have an 'official' ubuntu-lite 
and the users, we will need to consider this more serious.

For now I want to try steer in the direction of broad compatability as much 
possible. Already I will be engineering a solution to enable transformation 
to KDE. This is because of the introduction of scrollkeeper and the use of 
cross document links that is specific to yelp and scrollkeeper.

-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
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