[desktop] Sync with GNOME

[Doug Smythies]

On 2014.01.14 01:37, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
On 2014-01-14 08:17, Kevin Godby wrote:

>> We can certainly cut the strings and head off on our own; I have no
>> qualms about that. It may be handy to compare the subset of our
>> documentation that coincides with the upstream GNOME docs
>> periodically, though, as the GNOME docs may gives us a heads-up when
>> things are changing upstream that we'll have to address soon in Ubuntu
>> (e.g., control panel applets).

> Even if a couple of pages I just worked on originate from GNOME, and
> carry the same file names, I felt that syncing now wouldn't be at all
> meaningful.

Yesterday, I went down a rathole looking into why a couple of images seem to
still be missing, even when I was using the newest upstream yelp tools. It
turns out I made a couple of mistakes late in the 13.10 cycle, and two
images that I thought shouldn't be in Unity help, did in fact have Unity
paths to them, whereas I had thought they only had NOT Unity conditional
paths to them. (To be clear, there should not have been paths to those
images.) On my 14.04 DeskTop VM, for the related areas I went back and forth
between Unity DeskTop and GNOME DeskTop comparing the helps with the actual
function. I also went to The GNOME website, looking at their help, to see if
it had been updated.
Conclusion: GNOME help is not up to date with the actual GNOME DeskTop
either. I wonder if GNOME help docs suffer from the same not enough
contributors to keep up with the changes problem that we suffer from. What I
am saying is that some of the edits we need to do could also be applied
upstream. While I don't like duplicate efforts, I also don't know how, or
have the capacity, or have the time, to do some sort of update upstream
first, then update Unity help type approach.

... Doug