Converting to Mallard?

Phillip Whiteside phillw at phillw.net
Wed Apr 14 00:41:22 UTC 2010


Hi Phil


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've been looking at how best to handle the proposed (but not
> necessarily accepted!) conversion to Mallard for the Ubuntu system docs.
> Our current plan is to make a "test conversion" of the existing docs to
> Mallard and figure out any issues before deciding on whether to switch
> over.
>
> The Mallard-format GNOME Desktop Help (DH) will provide "stub" locations
> where we can plug our own topics into it. This suggests that we should
> use the DH as our main help system (Yelp front page, etc.) and then add
> Ubuntu-specific material where appropriate. This is in contrast to the
> current setup, where we maintain our own, separate, Ubuntu help system
> and then link out to the GNOME desktop user guide.
>
> Well, that seems to have messed me up, I'm looking to move to an LXDE
system as GNOME brings in too much stuff and is too bloated for lower spec
machines, would Mallard run under lxde (or xfce) without pulling in a load
of dependant relatives ?

Regards,

Phill.
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