Desktop help - Unity files Vs. GNOME files

[Greg Beam]

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Hi Doug,

So to move the MP-Update forward or if deemed necessary, revert to
324, what exactly is needed here? I'd like to get this resolved one
way or another so we can all move onto other things.

Greg
ki7mt at yahoo.com


On 01/12/2014 10:07 AM, Doug Smythies wrote:
> 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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