Direction of the Ubuntu system docs

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Phil,

there are times when I'm glad I mainly look after the Lubuntu docs, this is
one them. If you need an extra pair of hands on anything, please do feel
free to kidnap me. I have also got a couple of experienced wiki people
available who would also be able to be kidnapped on a short term basis
(Zach, you know as he is an admin), Jared (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris) and Kiempe (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UndiFineD) have also got some good knowledge and
would help out.

Regards,
Phill.

(One Day the Phil's will rule the world :D )

On 23 December 2010 11:19, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 21:34 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > As to the different books I was referencing the Official Ubuntu book,
> > the book you link to and other books Ubuntu ooks there are.
>
> I think it's good to have decent, freely-available, built-in
> documentation, even if books might do a better job in some
> circumstances. User assistance is an important facet of usability, so we
> should do our best to provide help out of the box.
>
> > So if we stick to topic based help wouldn't it just make sense to
> > cover things like customizing the desktop, etc reference Unity instead
> > of Gnome?   Note I'm not a Gnome dude and it has been a while since
> > I've looked at the Ubuntu documentation.  Would it be that hard to
> > reference Unity instead of Gnome?
>
> The problem is that Ubuntu mostly consists of GNOME applications (e.g.
> preference tools, file browser), which have GNOME documentation. In
> order to be more useful to users (i.e. to not be confusingly general),
> this documentation makes the assumption that a relatively GNOME-y user
> interface is available. This means that we may have to make minor
> patches to quite a lot of it to make it make sense for Unity.
> Fortunately, the GNOME help will soon be Mallard-based, so patching and
> replacing topics should be relatively easy.
>
> Another issue is that Ubuntu falls back to a GNOME 2.x interface if the
> computer doesn't have graphics support sufficient to run Unity. We would
> have to provide something like the current Ubuntu docs + GNOME 2.x docs
> in that case. (And, presumably, a topic to explain why the hell the
> user's desktop looks nothing like any of the nice screenshots they saw
> before they installed Ubuntu!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
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