Gnome docs update before Beta 2?

[Matthew East]

On 12 April 2011 12:34, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
> On 2011-04-12 09:33, Matthew East wrote:
>> Another issue is what to do with ubuntu-docs. At present it is pretty
>> useless on the CD as it isn't shown by yelp. However at the same time
>> it is used by at least two applications that I can think of for help
>> (jockey and usb-creator). If we are to drop ubuntu-docs we need to
>> either include that help in the applications themselves, include the
>> help in gnome-user-docs and update the applications accordingly, ship
>> a slimmed down version of ubuntu-docs with just those documents, or
>> leave it as it is.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Seeing that the ongoing work is all Unity focused, shouldn't we take
> into consideration that classic GNOME will be an option also in 11.04?
> One possible way to do that might be to link to ubuntu-docs - the whole
> thing or parts of it - with the remark that while parts of the old docs
> may be dated, they may still be more relevant to classic users.

This is a clever idea. All we would need to do is to write an index
page to link to the various documents present in ubuntu-docs and use
it as our "classic Gnome" help.

Jim - would this work?

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Matthew East
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