[desktop] ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-06-17 18:32, Doug Smythies wrote:
> On 2106.06.17 09:06 Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> On 2016-06-17 16:45, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>>> One of the big things that should be coming up for 16.10 is that
>>> we want to ship Unity 8 as a (non-default) alternative login
>>> shell alongside Unity 7.  I'd really like to see if we can get
>>> the ball rolling *now* on providing some good user docs for the
>>> Unity 8 desktop where possible, although I'm not sure how docs
>>> will be made available yet.
>> 
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help> currently consists of
>> a few highlighted pages plus 10 sections of documents which detail
>> various aspects of the desktop. One idea, for now, is to create a
>> highlighted Unity 8 page and, if enough contents can be written
>> within 3 months, an additional section.
> 
> Interesting. I had always assumed that whenever Unity 8 stuff came,
> that It would be added as a selection option one level higher, i.e.
> here: https://help.ubuntu.com/ and the package version would be
> completely independent.

So have I. But since Stephen now focuses on Unity 8 as an alternative
desktop session, and not (yet?) on complete Unity 8 docs covering also
phone and tablet, making use of the existing desktop guide structure
might make sense.

> Your idea might be much easier to implement.

At least it would make it easier to focus on content instead of
discussing markup language and other 'overhead' stuff. :)

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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