ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 31, Issue 11

[Rich Johnson]

On Monday 16 April 2007, Chris Fordham wrote:
| If the Desktop guide is dead, why is it there?
| The problem is that the community based system is a huge UoD.
| There are dozens of documents you could read which could be for any ubuntu
| to do something. Nobody knows the official page to do something instead
| are pointed all over the place. Its a mess on IRC particularly with
| sharing ubotu's factoids.
| There is no central knowledgebase, instead there are several which are all
| different.
|
| I want to make the equivalent of the FreeBSD handbook and saw the desktop
| guide as the document to enhance and then promote (this is called the
| official documentation on the wiki site).
|
| Should i be replying back to the digest, i'm not sure how i should be
| replying to the list.

Hi Chris,

Yes the desktop guide has perished, but you never know, this could be for the 
time being. Both KDE and GNOME are somehow, someway, working together in 
accordance with freedesktop.org in order to create a similar topic based help 
system which seems to be not only the norm with major software applications, 
but also receive the most amount of attention from a user. Topic based help 
is the way of the future and this is our first implementation of it, and 
truthfully I believe the only distro doing it this way. That is not to say we 
have perfected it just yet, but I guarantee it can only get better.

One thing I have tossed around with myself and with Jonathan Jesse is 
something similar to the desktop guide, the official Ubuntu book, and the 
switching guide. I would like to create a publication, and have actually 
started the preparations here locally that one can eventually go to prior to 
installing their Kubuntu system. Oh ya, I forgot to state, I work pretty much 
with Kubuntu documentation only. I also would like to see a common help 
portal for Ubuntu and the partner projects as well that will make searching 
and receiving help much easier. The way you are replying is just fine, you 
might want to just delete some of the stuff that isn't pertanant to the 
conversation, but you are fine. I have read over the FreeBSD handbook and I 
will say you can definitely tell they have their ducks in a row over there. 
Then again I remember reading that publication when it was first released 
many years ago. Who knows, I (we) may bring something back that is similar. 
Ubuntu really has the book that covers this the best, and like Jonathan said 
it is CC-by-SA, which means not long after it is released, there is an 
electronic version floating somewhere.

-- 
Rich Johnson
nixternal at ubuntu.com
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