Upcoming UI changes for UNR

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Matthew,

2009/9/13 Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009, Dougie Richardson wrote:
>>> While we're on UNR, if anyone on the team is interested then let me
>>> know, the Network and Internet section is complete but the rest is
>>> just a skeleton trunk.
>>
>>  So you mean you started from Ubuntu docs and just revised the Network
>>  and Internet sections, right?
>
> FWIW, I think this is definitely the way that this should be done. UNR
> is essentially Ubuntu with a facelift, and the majority of the
> material in the ubuntu-docs package is applicable. We've discussed in
> the past what the best way to ensure that derivative branches (e.g.
> xubuntu-docs) can use the material and changes made to the ubuntu-docs
> branches, and this is an excellent opportunity to put that into
> practice.
>
> I'd like to see a UNR branch created from the ubuntu-docs branch,
> which makes the relevant changes to account for the differences in
> menu structure and the additional software included in UNR. That
> branch can then keep up to date with changes made to the ubuntu-docs
> branch by merging in such changes as are relevant, and ignoring those
> that are not.
>
> Does anyone see an issue with such an approach?

Yes, the UNR team are keen that help reflects the interface -
desktop-switcher flips between the two. At the moment we discussed
that it sets an environment variable used to bring up the relevant
help.

I'm open to suggestions on how to stream both sets into one.

-- 
Regards,

Dougie Richardson
http://www.lynxworks.eu/
dougierichardson at ubuntu.com