Desktop help - Unity files Vs. GNOME files

[Doug Smythies]

I see that Benjamin copied the list on his reply. I had not intended this
e-mail for the list, at least not yet. I wasn't trying to specifically
exclude the list, but I knew that I couldn't include attachments of the size
that I did.

And to clarify, I am not talking about the future after 14.04, I am talking
about now, and the precedence that will be established by two merge
proposals, one that has been already been merged and one that is pending.

Anyway, if anyone wants to look at the referred to screen shot files, then
please see (in code to prevent automated address harvesters from getting the
URL):

 

Double you double you double you dot smythies dot com forward slash ~doug
forward slash temp_U_doc   (<- that is a capital U)

 

. Doug

 

From: bkerensa at gmail.com [mailto:bkerensa at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin
Kerensa
Sent: January-11-2014 15:40
To: Doug Smythies
Cc: KI7MT; Little Girl; Kevin Godby; ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Desktop help - Unity files Vs. GNOME files

 

So my thoughts are that in the near future it is likely we will see more
convergence of Ubuntu's code and UI between Desktop and Mobile.

When this occurs we will need to consider whether merging in GNOME is the
best step forward.

Considering UI changes it might make more sense to stop syncing and just
become our own upstream since we would have to drastically change GNOME doc.

On Jan 11, 2014 3:23 PM, "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> KI7MT ( Greg ) has done some good work for his merge proposal(s).
> As I also wrote in the MP itself, I think we need to make a conscious
decision going forward if we are going to deviate more and more from the
GNOME docs or not. Currently, the GNOME help has, as much as is possible,
the same look and feel as the Unity help. And as much as possible, the files
are inherited from the upstream GNOME help (However, Kevin understands that
process much better than I). If we do agree to deviate going forward then
maybe we can delete the conditional stuff.
> Myself, I don't really care either way, I just want us to think about it.
Also, I don't fully understand the current workflow and possible duplicate
effort scenarios. Since Kevin did most, if not all, of the re-syncing work
between GNOME upstream files and ours last cycle, he should comment.
> Attached are screen shots of the help pages for all 3 of: Unity help
proposed (leftmost); Unity help the way it is now (middle); GNOME help
(rightmost).
> online-index.png - It is not clear to me that the name "control ."
shouldn't have been left as it was. Notice the addition of license info
under "about", which if it is going to be done, should be done for every
file.
> online-add.png - Looks O.K. to me.
> online-disable.png - Myself I wouldn't have deleted the sentence nor added
the blue circle with the "i" in it nor deleted the see also "Which ."
reference.
> online-remove.png - Should the added note be suggested for upstream
(GNOME)?
> online-which.png - to be consistent, it need the license stuff. The
copyright sign doesn't make any sense under any licensing for this stuff
that I know of (and as was discussed on IRC).
> online-why.png - Greg did the work and wants to delete the bullet point
list, O.K. Why change the yellow rectangle with a pin to a yellow star?
> online-why-add.png - to be consistent, it need the license stuff. The
copyright sign. Should the paragraph changes be suggested for upstream
(GNOME)? (note: the middle help menu is more buried on purpose, to be able
to read and compare the entire paragraph).
> . Doug



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