-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:09:29AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > In GNOME 3 the whole concept of menus is gone. This means, among other > things, that there is no Documentation menu. There are a number of > categories: > > Accessories > Games > Graphics > Internet > Office > Others > Sound & Video > System Tools Are these coming from the standards from the opendesktop group? > > There is also an 'All' category, but this only includes applications > that are in one of the other categories. An application must be > specifically placed in the 'Other' category to appear there. That doesn't seem to be extremely helpful... > > I could see putting the Release Notes in "System Tools", but it doesn't > seem to me that documentation in general belongs there. Yelp is in > "Accessories", but that category is already cluttered, and I can see > "System Tools" getting pretty cluttered, too. I'd create a Documentation category before putting the RNs (and other docs) in with programs. > > To further complicate the matter, previously GNOME, XFCE and LXDE could > all share a .desktop file. It looks as if now a unique file will be > required for GNOME. This seems less than useful. Why the break in the standard .desktop file? > > Were we to have some sort of Documentation application we could then > have something like update-desktop-database that would run on install. > This would allow us to have single-language RPMs and still maintain > consistent Fedora-like language behavior. I can't say I'm really > thrilled with this, but it is an alternative. > > Another alternative would be to go back to installing a separate set of > documentation for Yelp, and let it deal with all the GNOME weirdness. > Or, perhaps we can press shaunm to get Yelp working smoothly for html > documentation. I have to admit I haven't played much with Yelp on > Fedora 15, and I know there has been substantial work done. Oh boy... An application and going back to the way we used to do it seems to be not the way forward, IMO. I feel as if Docs won't have much of a presence on F15 with all the changes forthcoming. Perhaps we'll have our act together by F16. What work is required for building, and pushing, a Documentation category? How will the documentation be rendered? - --Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk2YowIACgkQU03aaJDMNEWVUwEAgZFearRtSCb6drkoitLTzO+C OxcsYDYZN+eEAIvhYEsA/3iEnGVdseeA5m7QgFvhhgxpsBT1fFB+Avi4/I57ZHae =WR/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
