Topic-Based Thoughts

[Phil Bull]

Hi Rich,

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:05 -0600, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday 11 February 2007, Phil Bull wrote:
> | Hi guys,
> |
> | Just a few (more) thoughts/questions on the topic-based help.
> |
> |  * Currently, networking is contained in the Internet topic. I think
> | that it's probably going to be a big enough subject to have its own
> | topic, especially when considering wireless networking. Does anyone have
> | any thoughts on this?
> 
> I already split this out with Kubuntu because I thought the same. I am at 
> least 50% to 75% complete with it.

I'd like to do the same for the Ubuntu docs then, if there are no
objections. We could hopefully bring in a lot of material from the wiki,
too.

> |  * Should laptops get a topic of their own? Problems like power
> | management, suspend/resume, touchpads and finding laptop testing reports
> | could be covered.
> 
> I didn't even think about laptops, and here I am using a laptop all of the 
> time :)  It might be a good idea to have a laptop section, especially Kubuntu 
> with the new Guidance Power Management. Thanks for a reminder on laptops.

Again, I'm especially keen to link to and reuse the resources on the
wiki. Touchpads and suspend/resume are pretty common questions, I think.

> |  * Games is currently just a list of a few games. Would it be better to
> | split games up into types of game (e.g. strategy, puzzles) and list a
> | few relevant packages in each one of those sections?
> 
> Check out kubuntu/games/C/games.xml. It is still a list of games, but a much 
> larger list with information and split just like you think. I believe Matt 
> and I agreed that this topic could be interchanged with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. 
> So take a look, copy it over, and see if there are any specifics that need to 
> be changed or added to.

That looks much better! I'll try to prepare a patch this week for the
Ubuntu side of things - all of the instructions mentioning the KMenu
will need to be changed, but that's about it I think.

> |  * What is the scope of programming.xml? I'd quite like it to mention
> | Gambas (an implementation of BASIC), as it's pretty nice for former
> | Windows/VB programmers.
> 
> What about Logo? Isn't that another good beginner language? Or are we just 
> going to briefly cover the languages that you can develop in out of the box?

I suppose it depends on who the potential programmer is. I think you can
only program in Python and Perl out of the box anyway; build-essential
is an optional package AFAIK.

> | Just to clarify, I am volunteering to make these changes...
> 
> Whew :) I am so glad you came back by the way Phil, you have provided a great 
> deal of help.

Heh, I just hope I can contribute something that's useful, like the rest
of you guys...

> | Thanks,
> 
> No, thank you!

Thanks for all your help Rich,

Phil

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