<div>On 8/6/07, Jani Monoses <<a href="mailto:jani.monoses@gmail.com">jani.monoses@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jim Campbell wrote: > Hi Jani, > > Thanks for your feedback. Giusseppe has already responded to the > technical items, and your suggestions are all reasonable - I just wish > they had come sooner. We talked about it at a couple of our IRC > meetings [1], and there was also a pretty decent thread on the mailing > list seeking feedback on the proposed project [2] before any real work > had been started. > > Xubuntu is a volunteer project, though. No one person is going to read > every ML thread or go to every meeting. Given that, is there anything > we can do to prevent situations like this in the future? everyone reading every thread I guess :)</blockquote><div> I personally read every thread. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com"> xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> Jani: We considered stripping yelp of gnome deps when this project was first proposed but gpocentrek (sp) said that it would be "impossible". The xubuntu docs package ships html files - we've never used the xml docbook since we don't have a docbook reader for Xubuntu. Having a separate application allows us to add features specific to a documentation browser. However, this is not to say it would be wiser to use a light-weight browser (nor am I saying it is). Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville -- Firefox (<a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">www.getfirefox.com</a>) -- A browser you can trust