[desktop] Sync with GNOME

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
The Docs Teams in all projects (that i have seen) seem to suffer the
same "not enough people" problem.  Gnome is probably the same.  You
are all doing a great job though!
Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 January 2014 19:08, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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