On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:15:20 +0000 Nathan Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Brock's email thread about DVD installation media kind of branched > into a sub-thread about Fedora Xfce documentation. I just wanted to > point out that we already have some documentation of the Xfce desktop > and applications included in the Xfce Spin in the Fedora User Guide > (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/User_Guide/index.html), > almost as much as we have for GNOME and KDE, in fact. > > I'll be trying to update this material for Xfce 4.8 in time for > Fedora 15. Brock mentioned that he would like to write an > introductory guide for Xfce in Fedora, which would be great - it > would presumably be more substantial than existing documentation, and > it would be nice to have all the Xfce documentation collected in one > place rather than mixed in with GNOME and KDE stuff, as it is at the > moment. However, I'm concerned about duplication of effort. Should we > simply remove the Xfce material from the User Guide and point people > towards the new introductory guide? Or is there sufficient reason to > keep some Xfce documentation in the User Guide? > > I would strongly recommend making the new guide part of the Fedora > Docs Project, so it can join the central online repository for Fedora > documentation (http://docs.fedoraproject.org), and be easily > translated by the Localisation teams using Transifex. See > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project for more info - > documentation is marked up using Docbook XML and managed with the > awesome Publican toolchain, but if you'd prefer to use the wiki or > even just plain text for the introductory guide I'd be happy to do > the XML/git/Publican bits. > > Best wishes > Nathan > > I just looked at the "official" documentation for Xfce in the user guide, it could use some work, Kudos to those whom contributed to it but we can do better : ) I have some ideas for what we could include and I thought of revising the way the current documentation stands. I will send an email later after brainstorming on it for a while. _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
