Hi all, On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:06:46 -0600 Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Given this state of affairs, and the fact that we already bury the > > release notes launcher in the sundry folder, I think it would make a lot > > of sense to instead arrange for it to become pre-seeded content in > > documents, like the gnome-document getting-started guide is treated > > currently. If we do that, the release notes will still show up > > prominently in shell searches, thanks to the gnome-documents search > > provider. > > > > > > Matthias > > Bastien replies with a note that PDFs are needed for this - we can do > PDFs. How does this pre-seeding work in practice? How does having the > documentation show up prominently in shell searches via this mechanism > better align with the design goals of Workstation, as compared to the > current implementation? This is not new, it has been brought up before, also as part of the GNOME upstream discussions. Back in 2012, I put together some notes about possible ways to improve integration of our Publican-based, locally installed documents, such as the Fedora Release Notes, with the GNOME desktop: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Help (Scroll down to Comments, some parts of that page discuss an outdated yelp redesign proposal, which is quite irrelevant here.) One idea was to use yelp to display the Release Notes. Also, we could prominently link to the Notes from the GNOME Help landing page, and also from the Getting Started tutorial that is shown to desktop users at first login. What really got my interest was an idea to implement a new GNOME Shell search provider (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690058) that would integrate with Tracker to index locally installed docs (with the search possibly restricted to /usr/share/help/). Similarly to already indexed user documents in ~/Documents or personal contacts, users could then search for locally installed documentation, including the Release Notes, from within the Shell's Activities overview. This would allow for a far better (as in systematic) approach to finding files on the user's desktop, with a neat categorization in the Shell's search results as an added bonus. I still like this idea, especially if we really want to continue shipping and installing the Release Notes locally. Cheers, pk -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
