Re: Doc Day

[Patrick Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

The documentation team in Sun came to a similar conclusion regarding the UG 
for the Java Desktop System, which is based on the GNOME Desktop. We are 
removing the overview chapter from the JDS UG, and creating a separate 
online Help manual called "Desktop Overview". Now, due to workload 
considerations that I have explained previously, we cannot commit to do a 
community version of this manual as well as the JDS version, however if it 
would make anybody's life easier we could share our work to date.

Of course, there are some parts of our manual that are JDS-specific, and 
therefore prevent us from publishing the whole work now in advance of the 
product release. However, the manual is very modular, and we could come to 
some sort of arrangement whereby we remove the product-specific bits and 
pass the generic parts onto the GDP as part of a collaborative effort.

Shaun - if you think this would be beneficial for the GDP "Desktop Tour", 
let me know and we can take the discussion offline.

Pat

Eric Baudais wrote:
> Gnomers:
>
> I have the raw chat log from the first ever Doc Day.  Thanks to our
> Fearless Leader Shaun for organizing the day.  We went through some of
> the User's Guide.  The general concensus was to break it up into two
> guides.  One called Tour explaining the operation of the desktop and
> the other as reference guide.  Work has been started on organizing
> material in the User's Guide.  Below are the people who are organizing
> and cleaning up each section.
>
> Working with Files - hobd
> Working with Panels - drake
> Working with Windows and Menus - zanee
> Overview of the Desktop and Using the Desktop - shaunm
>
> If anyone else wants to take the Overview of the Desktop and Using the
> Desktop sections, I'm sure Shaun won't mind.
>
> The URL where the chat log is located is below.
>
> http://baudais.net/gnome/doc-day-04-07-25.txt
>
> Regards,
> Eric Baudais
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