Using Mallard for Ubuntu docs

[Jordan Erickson]

Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
> as one who does not use gnome, my little two cents worth is that
> instructions should not be tied 100% to gnome. Whilst the vast majority use
> 'vanilla' ubuntu, there are other flavours. As ubuntu is ubuntu, should we
> be as aware of that as we are translations?
> Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. Each of the flavours has translation teams and I'm
> sure some translators work on more than one flavour, the 'base' installation
> documents need to cover all that is common (grub, kernel etc) after that how
> does for example, the chromium browser team from ubuntu work with those from
> kde work with xfce, work with lxde etc ? I've seen some excellent wiki pages
> that put in the difference between gksudo and kdesu. One easy example for
> lubuntu (allbeit not a fully fledged ubuntu yet) is that it would be leafpad
> and not gedit that is the shipped programme for people to do that lower
> level of editing with.

Agreed! As a new wiki contributor I get a weird feeling when pages
specifically tell you to "sudo gedit /dir/dir/file". In hoping that I
can clean up wiki pages (at least pertaining to Edubuntu and LTSP) I
want to make it more editor/UI/etc agnostic. A lot of aspects of Ubuntu
seem to cater to gnome-specific stuff - this is natural since it's
default, but I think it's time everyone takes a step back and realizes
that Ubuntu != Gnome. Same with notifications, etc. which was mentioned
above). Anyway, this is my first post, so hello everyone =)


- Jordan

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