Here's the wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTour/StartPage
I'll add some mockups soon. On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:28 +0000, Anthony Stewart wrote: > Hi all. > > > > Just a quick email about the programming side. I think most of it is > done, however, there are a few things. > > > 1. Language system. We are testing a new dialects system. This > means that you need only write 1 tour for each language, then > the dialect system will automatically translate it. Basically > this means that the dialect languages shouldn't be needed. > Please download the new-lang-system branch and test it > out.When writing tours please using the main dialect, for > english, please use en_GB. There are several reasons for this. > > 1) Less likely to corrupt tags, <font color="red">Change > colour</font> would translate to <font color="red">Change > color</font> with english as the base lang. <font > color="red">Change color</font> would translate to <font > colour="red">Change colour</font> with american english as the > base lang. (Although i think I have got regex to minize the > chance of this happening it's still possible. > > 2) English english is more complex. For example, depending on > the context it may be programme or program, whereas afaik in > American it's always program. Translating from American the > script would have no idea which it was meant to be. > > If these are the case in other languages, Austrian German -> > German to German is easier than the reverse, then decide > between the translators of that language which you want to use > as the base, it really, doesn't matter, provided there is a > file de_DE in the dialects folder with all the translations > from de to de_DE. Basically if you us language ab_CD it will > load the tour in language ab and apply the translations in the > ab_CD file. If this file doesn't exist it will simply not > apply any dialects, which may be fine. If you decide you want > to use en_US as your base than that is probably fine too, but > it may cause some unexpected results. > > 2. Bugs. If you see anything wrong with the programming, please > post them here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour. No > matter how trivial they seam, posting on the bug tracker is > the easiest way for us to manage them. Programmers, if you see > a bug, which is no assigned to anyone, feel free to assign it > to yourself and fix it. > > 3. We have a system which allows you to regulate tour > progression. This has been available for a while but it not > being used, most likely because it is not appropriate but also > I don't know if it is know about. Here is an example that you > could put in the firefox file > <!-- "Requirements" > cancontinue = ("firefox-bin" in os.popen("ps aux | grep > firefox").read()) > elsemessage = ["Firefox is not running.", "We recommend you to > start it before continuing."] > justwarning = True > "Requirements" --> > > cancontinue should be a boolean. This can, like the above but > generated in python, the above will see if firefox is running > or not. > elsemessage is the message which should be shown if the > condition above is not met, if you don't set a value for > elsewarning it will default to ["Progression Warning", "We > recommend you run the relevant program before continuing."] > justwarning should also be a boolean, if True, then the tour > will progress if cancontinue fails, it will show the warning > but carry on. If false the tour will not allow you to move on > at all until the condition is met. By default this is True. > > 4. Additional features. If you want anything else adding to the > programming back-end, just ask on the IRC, if there are any > developers around or message the mailing list. If you want to > be able to do something then just ask. Some of the features > available are demoed in "Continue Playing -> Build tests". In > addition you should be able to make use of HTML5, javascript > and jquery. > > 5. Start page. I think we need a start page, so when the tour > first starts, the user gets a nice friendly page. Also the > parents for each of the tours, Internet, Office, Multimedia > ect should also have pages. These should be single pages > though, not tours. Discuss. > > I think I promised you a short email, sorry about that. > > > Regards > > > Anthony > > > tl;dr -> We now have a dialect system, each dialect doesn't need it's > own tour. Please report bugs in the bug tracker. We have progression > requirements, we have had for a while, please feel free to use them. > If you want more features, please ask. I think we need a start page > and a page for each of the sections. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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