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mdkehow are things jsgotangco 12:32
mdkea bit late out of bed eh12:33
jsgotangcoi just woke up12:33
jsgotangcohehe12:33
jsgotangcodid you get to talk to enrico?12:33
mdkenope12:33
mdkebut i talked to jeff for a while12:33
mdke(waugh)12:34
SquishyWaffledo you have to be a member to get an ubuntu.com email address? :012:38
jsgotangcoyes, but even members still dont have it yet (waiting)12:39
jsgotangcomdke: how did it go12:39
mdkequite well12:39
mdkejsgotangco, btw meet SquishyWaffle he wants to join the team :)12:39
SquishyWafflegreetings12:39
jsgotangcohello SquishyWaffle, i am Jerome12:39
mdkeSquishyWaffle, meet jerome, he works on kde docs so maybe you can work together12:39
SquishyWaffleah, great. Yes, I'm very interested in working on the KDE docs12:40
jsgotangcothat's great12:40
jsgotangcoi'll need someone to fill the void12:40
jsgotangcobecause KDE docs will be 1.0 by Breezy12:40
SquishyWaffleWell I'm eager to help with it :)12:41
jsgotangcohave you checked out the repositories or at least know docbook12:41
SquishyWaffleOur LUG pushes Ubuntu to most of the members so this helps on multiple levels12:41
SquishyWaffleI've looked at them but I haven't played just yet. Docbook just looks like a typical markup language, should be pretty straightforward.12:41
jsgotangcoyes12:41
jsgotangcowe even have a template in svn just in case12:42
SquishyWaffleI hear there's supposed to be some meetings to determine priorities but is there any particular area we're focusing on in the KDE docs?12:43
jsgotangcowe plan to hold a meeting anytime this weekend or early next week12:43
jsgotangcofor KDE we only have 2 targets for now12:43
jsgotangcothe quickguide and the user guide12:43
SquishyWaffleok12:43
jsgotangcowe're incredibly short of manpower and active committers12:44
SquishyWafflewell I'm around when you guys are ready :)12:45
SquishyWaffleI can justify doing some of it at work since it benefits our researchers12:45
mdkeawesome12:45
SquishyWaffleI might be able to get some others involved from my LUG since we already do a lot of documentation at http://learn.clemsonlinux.org12:46
SquishyWaffleI can put the word out to the rest of the group at our first fall meeting and maybe we'll get a group of people working on this on-campus eventually. Certaintly helps to be able to meet in person about things to talk12:47
mdkethat would be amazing too12:47
mdkehopefully by then we'll have a good methodology going12:47
SquishyWaffleyeah, I'm curious to see how it'll all pan out12:48
mdkeok well jerome will organise the meeting over the new week or so12:49
SquishyWaffleThis upcoming year we're going to present incoming students who buy their laptops from the campus with the option of Windows XP, Dual Booting Windows/Ubuntu, or Ubuntu only, really looking forward to it :12:49
mdkeAMAZING12:49
mdkegot the cds?12:49
SquishyWaffleWe're thrilled, this campus hasn't been very accepting of Linux but recently we've made lots of progress12:49
SquishyWafflewe sent out for some Hoary ones ages ago but they never arrived, had lots of Warty back when that was the stable branch12:50
mdkeyeah they ship to the people who didn't order warty first12:51
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: where from?12:51
mdkeemail em and ask for a big order, they can organise it12:51
SquishyWafflejsgotangco: Clemson, South Carolina12:51
mdkesee the shipit FAQ12:51
SquishyWaffleWell the need for CDs isn't huge since we net install Ubuntu at installfests :)12:52
mdkeok12:52
mdkebut its cool to give em out12:52
SquishyWaffleOh yeah, we hand out tons of burnt ones12:52
SquishyWaffleWent through the Warty ones in a few days and we had like 50 :)12:52
SquishyWaffleconverted a whole lot of Fedora/Gentoo'ers12:53
mdkegreat stuff12:53
SquishyWaffleOf particular interest I really think the wireless setup stuff needs great attention for a wide variety of situations12:53
mdkeyeah wifi support is not great12:54
SquishyWaffleSince all of our laptops are wireless equipped, we've had to deal with a lot of different chipsets and hardware. It's usually straightforward but we've had problems with some of the Compaqs12:54
mdkea lot of laptop testing will go on before breezy12:54
SquishyWaffleThis is one of the most wireless campuses on the east cost, so it's very important :)12:54
SquishyWaffleAnd that's good to hear, I need to get our guys suggesting stuff. That is THE biggest stumbling block right now for us as a LUG since everyone uses laptops (it's required by the school).12:54
mdkewhoa12:55
mdkerequired?12:55
mdkedo they give em out for free?12:55
SquishyWaffleyes, it's a big engineering/science school, everything is electronic (admissions, tuition payment, homework, etc.). No, buy on your own :(12:55
SquishyWaffleBut it's good to have. You can get wireless everywhere and it's wonderful to be able to take notes electronically12:56
SquishyWaffleI had a wiki going for my notes at one time, was awesome to have a searchable scratchpad.12:56
mdkevery cool12:56
jsgotangcowell our svn has been officially silent for the last 12 hours12:58
=== SquishyWaffle pings
mdkequick upload something!12:59
mdkejsgotangco, i have spent my time on the wiki today12:59
mdkethe wiki is now MOIN ONLY!12:59
jsgotangcogyah12:59
jsgotangcoi still prefer media wiki01:00
jsgotangcoalthough moin has great table tags01:00
SquishyWaffleyeah, I love Mediawiki01:00
jsgotangcoi actually run it in my laptop01:00
jsgotangcofor personal use01:00
jsgotangcohehe01:00
SquishyWaffleme too, great for note taking01:01
SquishyWafflewe're using it to write a book at work, fit that application wonderfully01:01
mdkei must try that01:01
SquishyWaffleit's awesome, helps with open-note tests :)01:01
jsgotangcomoin moin is great, although if your hardware is kinda old, its a bit slow01:01
mdkei'm in the stone age with abiword01:01
SquishyWafflemoinmoin is perhaps the only words weirder than wiki01:01
mdke*grins*01:02
jsgotangcodude, abiword rules, its way better than writer01:02
mdkehmm01:02
mdkewell...01:02
jsgotangcoit loads a hell lot faster01:03
mdketrue01:03
SquishyWaffleare ubuntu meetings always this rowdy?01:04
mdkethe CC ones normally are01:04
mdkethe technical ones aren't01:04
jsgotangcoyeah01:05
SquishyWaffleI'm not even going to bother trying for membership until I have enough amassed to make it an obvious decision :)01:06
SquishyWaffleJust by watching this01:06
mdke*grins*01:06
mdkeits a strange business01:06
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: just talk the talk and you'll get recognized01:08
jsgotangcoeven if you do it on the sidelines01:08
mdkehey once you're in a team its straightforward01:08
jsgotangcoyeah01:08
jsgotangcomdke: we currently have 3 active svn accounts01:09
SquishyWaffleso as a non-member, will I be submitting updates to one of you guys once I start working?01:09
jsgotangcowe're freaking on the way the gates of hell01:09
mdkeSquishyWaffle, yeah to the mailing list01:09
mdkejsgotangco, i told you, don't panic01:09
mdkeit'll be fine01:10
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: yes, if you'd like to mess up with docbook, you'll just make a patch and send it to the list01:10
mdkeSquishyWaffle, after a short time, you'll get commit access too01:10
SquishyWaffleshoot, haven't played with patch in ages :)01:10
mdkeSquishyWaffle, instructions on the wiki01:10
jsgotangcomdke: like to panic01:10
=== SquishyWaffle was going to ask :)
jsgotangcoI01:10
mdkeSquishyWaffle, we can help too01:10
mdkejsgotangco, i will help chill you out01:11
mdkei'm all about chilling01:11
jsgotangcosend me to cape town01:11
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamStepByStepRepository01:11
mdkethat would help you chill?01:11
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: just ignore the make qg part01:12
jsgotangcomdke: a trip to paradise would be good01:12
mdketry the pacific ocean01:12
mdkeoh hang on a sec...01:12
jsgotangcodude01:12
mdkeyou live there!01:12
jsgotangcoi live around the pacific ocean01:12
SquishyWafflehrm, how are images handled?01:13
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mdkeSquishyWaffle, in docbook?01:13
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: we use PNG01:13
SquishyWaffleI'm very visual so I like to do lots of screenshots for applications. I'm talking in terms of getting them to you01:13
jsgotangcohmm01:13
mdkeemail to the list, jsgotangco will push em through01:13
mdkeor just email them to him direct ;)01:13
SquishyWaffleso your attachment size limit is very high? :)01:13
mdkeno01:13
mdkeactually list isn't a good idea01:13
jsgotangcoits not01:14
mdkeemail to any one of us01:14
SquishyWaffleok01:14
jsgotangcohttp://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/TakingScreenshots01:14
SquishyWaffleok01:16
mdkeinteresting01:38
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=== SquishyWaffle grabs the doc tree and starts tinkering
SquishyWafflewhat packages do I need for this makefile script?01:49
SquishyWaffledocbook?01:49
jsgotangcowell that went well01:49
mdkewhat are you building?01:49
SquishyWaffleI'm looking at the root of the ubuntu-docs tree01:49
SquishyWafflelooks to assemble .html files or something01:50
mdkeignore the makefile stuff01:50
mdkethat is just for packaging the docs01:50
mdkeoh, you can use "make html"01:50
jsgotangcoi dont even make my stuff01:51
jsgotangcohehe01:51
jsgotangcoi like to do it hardcore01:51
mdkehmm glad sabdfl is involved01:52
jsgotangcowhat is 12 UTC, noon?01:52
mdkeyes01:52
jsgotangcowho that's not so bad here01:53
jsgotangco(4pm)01:53
jsgotangcooh wait01:53
jsgotangco8pm01:53
jsgotangconot so bad either01:53
SquishyWafflehrm, khelpcenter is executed directly on these .xml files?01:53
mdkei think so, better ask jsgotangco 01:54
SquishyWaffletrying to look at kde/kynaptic/C/kynaptic.xml and it's horribly garbled in khelpcenter01:54
jsgotangcono khelpcenter uses KHTML01:54
mdkeah khelpcenter sucks01:55
mdke*ksucks01:55
jsgotangcoyelp sucks more though01:55
SquishyWaffleso what's best to use in KDE?01:55
jsgotangcoskrew you01:55
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: we still use Khelpcenter but need to clean it up01:55
jsgotangcosince we use docbook, we can easily create other formats01:56
mdkeubuntu/kubuntu docs is a topic for the meeting imho01:56
SquishyWafflejsgotangco: Am I right by doing a: khelpcenter kde/kynaptic/C/kynaptic.xml?01:56
SquishyWaffleit comes out as a huge mass of words01:56
mdkeseems khelpcenter doesn't read xml01:57
SquishyWaffleso I'll probably have ot use yelp from KDE?01:57
mdkeor build the html i guess01:58
mdkejsgotangco, how do you check your docs?01:58
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SquishyWaffleno idea how to build this html, it doesn't even look like the html.sh file is actually building anything02:00
jsgotangcoyes02:00
jsgotangcouse yelp02:00
jsgotangcokde doesn't have a docbook xml viewer02:01
jsgotangcohtml.sh does't work02:01
SquishyWaffleis anyone able to run yelp with kde/kynaptic/C/kynaptic.xml without getting a boatload of errors and a blank page?02:02
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle: its probably not well-formed xml02:03
SquishyWaffleyargh :/02:03
jsgotangcohold on let me check02:03
mdkelooks fine02:04
jsgotangcohmm02:05
jsgotangcohaha02:05
mdkeworks here02:05
jsgotangcomy kubuntu doesn't have docbook in the first place02:05
jsgotangcothats why its not validating02:05
jsgotangcohehe02:05
SquishyWaffleI've got docbook, is there any sub-packages that are needed?02:05
mdkemaybe the yelp dependencies aren't right02:06
jsgotangcoi have to check02:06
jsgotangcoyelp depends on something like 29 packages02:06
jsgotangco(strange that it also gets mozilla-firefox)02:07
SquishyWaffleheh02:07
jsgotangcolet me review the CC meeting first02:07
jsgotangcothe last part is quite interesting02:07
mdkereview?02:07
jsgotangcoi was roaming around when02:07
mdkeah when i kicked off?02:07
mdkeok02:07
mdkei/it02:07
jsgotangcoim in a client atm02:07
jsgotangcoits only 8am02:08
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=== SquishyWaffle found his first thing to correct :)
mdkethats the stuff02:10
mdkeall clear with the step by step patch thing?02:10
SquishyWaffleoh, you want every minor change documented with a patchfile?02:10
mdkeno no02:10
mdkejust whatever you want to do02:10
SquishyWaffleoh ok, didn't know because some people are that way with CVS and C/C++ development :002:11
mdkeafter you've worked on it and want to go to bed, patch02:11
SquishyWaffleok02:11
SquishyWaffleI can issue a patch statement from the root directory and get everything in one hit, right?02:11
jsgotangcowell02:12
jsgotangcowe would rather patch small02:12
SquishyWaffleso a per-file basis?02:12
jsgotangcoyes02:12
SquishyWaffleok, working on the quickguide atm02:12
jsgotangcokde?02:12
SquishyWaffleyup, found a few little glitches02:12
jsgotangcoheh02:12
jsgotangcoblame me02:12
SquishyWaffleit happens, that's what I'm here for :002:13
jsgotangcofeel free to mess up with the structure02:13
jsgotangcoim just doing screenshots for now02:13
SquishyWaffleit looks neat, I like the introduction and the legend02:13
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jsgotangcowtf even yelp looks good in KDE02:18
SquishyWaffleyeah, not bad02:18
jsgotangcohmmm there's a problem with kynaptic.xml02:19
SquishyWaffleit was pretty mangled02:20
jsgotangcohmm02:20
mdkeseems to validate here02:20
mdkeand i can view it perfectly02:20
jsgotangcohold on, i'll brb and reboot to ubuntu (in kubuntu)02:20
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jsgotangcohmm02:25
jsgotangcoam i missing something02:25
jsgotangcoeven in gnome, the file isnt valid02:25
mdkewhats wrong with it?02:25
jsgotangcono idea02:25
mdkei'll do you a screenshot02:25
mdkehttp://www.mdke.org/images/yelp.png02:26
jsgotangconice domain02:27
jsgotangcoheh02:27
mdkegot it recently02:27
jsgotangcohmm wtf is not here02:27
jsgotangcoi have docbook02:27
mdkei'm not on ubuntu02:27
jsgotangcoxslt02:27
jsgotangcohmmm02:27
mdkebut its working02:27
jsgotangcowhat are you using?02:28
mdkeand the validate script is fine02:28
mdkegentoo02:28
mdkedon't make me turn on my laptop02:28
SquishyWaffleargh gentoo02:29
mdkeargh kubuntu02:29
mdke:p02:29
SquishyWafflemmmm02:29
SquishyWaffleemerge kubuntu02:29
jsgotangcogentoo, so you like it hard02:29
SquishyWaffleI love that picture of the boat on bottom of that ricer site :)02:30
SquishyWaffle"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others"02:31
SquishyWafflehttp://funroll-loops.org/gentoo.jpg02:31
mdke:(02:31
SquishyWafflethat website is hilarious, lots of good quotes02:32
mdkewill check it out02:32
SquishyWaffleit's worth a chuckle02:32
jsgotangcois that the one with Ubuntu with the cleavage02:32
SquishyWaffleno, that's the one with big racecars and little spoilers02:32
SquishyWaffleGentoo Ricers :)02:32
SquishyWafflehttp://funroll-loops.org02:32
jsgotangcoahhh Type R fans02:33
jsgotangcoi used to drive a Type R before i got married02:33
mdkeoh thats so harsh02:33
SquishyWaffleheh, well read some of the quotes, they are amusing02:34
mdkeyeah02:34
SquishyWaffle"Binary packages are bad! If you don't use your system to compile itself, it will lose the ability to compile itself. Huge systems like gnome, libc etc. are constantly decaying into complexity. Your pain is necessary, because a fraction of people like you will try and relieve that pain by improving the system."02:34
SquishyWaffleand it's got a shot of an old P1 with a Turbo button on the bottom :)02:35
mdkeso true02:35
mdke*grins*02:35
SquishyWafflethose things were wicked02:35
mdkegentoo rocks02:35
SquishyWaffleI'd push my turbo button before playing Commander Keen and I was rockin02:35
mdke"Sure, the extra 2% you gain from optimizing for your CPU is nice, but that's not main the reason to use Gentoo. It's about control. I have two words for the anti-Gentoo critics: "use variables". That's the power of Gentoo, being able to choose whether or not you want to install all of KDE just to get arts, or whether you want to enable gnome support in Abiword. No RPM-based distro can do that."02:35
mdkehey thats true02:36
jsgotangcohmm02:36
jsgotangcomdke02:36
jsgotangcohelp me out think02:36
mdkewhat errors does the validate script give you?02:36
jsgotangcono not that thing02:36
jsgotangcofor the meeting02:36
jsgotangcoheh02:36
mdkewassup?02:37
jsgotangcohow should i start this email02:37
mdkedon't make it too melodramatic02:37
jsgotangcohah02:38
mdkesend me what you have and i'll look at it when i wake up?02:38
mdkeits 2 am02:38
jsgotangco"hey dudes, let's meet up and rock the casbah at"02:38
jsgotangconah, i'll just review the irclog02:38
SquishyWafflewhere are the conventions stored? I'm trying to come up with a list of the various tags like <note>02:38
mdkenot sure they all are tbh02:39
mdkeif you come up with such a list, put it on the wiki it would be an excellent tool02:39
jsgotangcoyou can use bluefish though02:39
SquishyWafflehrm, /common/C/conventions.xml02:39
SquishyWaffleI may just do that mdke02:39
mdkehey i'd read it02:39
mdkewould be good for newcomers too02:39
mdkejsgotangco, just say, the docteam needs to review its targets and directions and that canonical people have expressed a wish to help out and bring us closer to the community02:39
mdkejsgotangco, then ask for availability and agenda02:40
SquishyWaffleDocteamVariousTags sound like a good page name?02:40
jsgotangco*sigh* i have to check the wiki then, i hate the wiki02:40
mdkejsgotangco, i will help out in whatever way you want me to02:41
mdkeSquishyWaffle, sure whatever you like, make sure you link it in the docteam section tho02:41
jsgotangcoill refer to past wiki entries02:41
mdkecool02:42
mdkebed for me02:42
mdkegood night y'all02:42
jsgotangconight see you later then in a few hours02:42
mdkegimme 8 hours02:42
mdke;)02:42
mdkemy god that guy Mez02:44
mdkehttp://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NewbieGods02:44
SquishyWafflerofl02:45
mdkejsgotangco, can you explain what sabdfl was talking about when he referred to email addresses @ubuntu.com during the docteam discussion?02:45
mdkei must have missed that particular argument02:45
SquishyWaffleugh, spelling error on that page, must fix :)02:45
jsgotangcohmmm02:47
jsgotangcoohh02:47
jsgotangcohe was referring to jdub02:47
mdke??02:48
mdkethere was some dispute over his email address?02:48
jsgotangcono no no02:48
mdke;)02:48
jsgotangcohe was referring to the mini flame war that involved sean, jdub and others who decided to dive in02:48
mdkeoh well02:49
mdkemaybe I misunderstood02:49
jsgotangcoNewbie Gods?02:49
jsgotangcooh now its about power02:49
mdkejsgotangco, from the meeting, but Mez has already taken it up like its an official project02:49
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mdkeopen source is exhausting02:49
mdke<-- bed for real now02:50
jsgotangcookay02:50
SquishyWafflethink the <command> tag might be broken02:55
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SquishyWaffleCheck this out: https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamDocBookTags03:17
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jsgotangcohmmm nice03:31
SquishyWaffledefinitely not a complete list but it's a start03:37
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SquishyWafflehowdy03:44
jeffschhowdy03:44
jeffschSquishyWaffle: are you greg taylor?03:45
SquishyWaffleYes I am, jeff03:45
jeffschcool. I just saw DocteamDocBookTags03:46
jeffschit's good to have.03:46
SquishyWafflegood deal, I was hoping it wasn't already done03:46
jeffschI have started a styleguide. see StyleGuideDiscussion03:46
jeffschmaybe you could move DocteamDocBookTags info to there?03:47
SquishyWafflesure, doesn't look like the make pdf stuff is working though03:47
jeffschyeah. it only works if you have apache fop installed.03:48
SquishyWaffleahhh03:48
jeffschI put a pdf in the repos yesterday, though03:48
SquishyWafflewhat's the package for fop?03:48
jeffschif i had a brain, i would be able to remember how I got the fop stuff :-(03:49
SquishyWaffleheh, no biggy03:49
jeffschi think i got it directly from apache03:49
SquishyWaffledoesn't look like yelp is letting me view that thing either, shoot03:49
SquishyWafflemake html worked, that's just as good03:49
jeffschyelp is working fine for me...03:49
SquishyWaffleI tell ya what, let me work on the tag listing for a while and make sure it's complete before moving it to that. I may re-organize the list as I learn more about the doc system03:50
jeffschno problem.03:51
jsgotangcojeffsch!03:53
jeffschhowdy03:53
jsgotangcoi'm calling a meeting03:53
jeffschok03:54
jsgotangcosabdfl, jdub and mako are interested in joining03:54
jeffschwhat's it about?03:54
jsgotangcowell we just had a CC meeting a few hours ago and sabdfl was pretty worried over the mini flame war in the list03:55
jsgotangcoso first thing in agenda is to review our targets03:55
jsgotangcoat least update what we've been doing03:55
jsgotangcosecond is at least chart a roadmap of what approach we would want to do with work03:56
jsgotangcothird is involve CC and create common ground so we can work together03:56
SquishyWaffleCC?03:57
jsgotangcoCommunity Council03:57
SquishyWaffleok03:57
jsgotangcoi'm going to convince froud to attend, given that he has just withdrew his name in the list and deleted his details from the wiki03:58
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jsgotangcohttp://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-current.html04:01
jsgotangcotranscript about docteam starts at 01:3404:02
SquishyWafflewhat's this about @ubuntu.com email addresses?04:09
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jdubSquishyWaffle: members get addresses, but they haven't been set up yet04:13
SquishyWafflehave there been arguments about this? I'm not sure how that was relevant to the meeting04:14
jduboh, not about that04:15
jdubthe reference there was about a comment on the mailing list04:15
jdubabout the relative strength of people who have ubuntu.com addresses04:15
SquishyWafflewhat do you mean by that?04:16
jdubthere's a bit of an insider/outsider feel sometimes04:16
jdubwhich has been exacerbated by members not having ubuntu.com addresses04:17
SquishyWaffleI can agree with that04:17
jdubit's just a perspective thing04:17
SquishyWafflebut I don't think it'd be in the interest of them to hand out addresses to every single user. That becomes a substantial infrastructure problem.04:17
jdubno, just ubuntu members04:19
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle, we're going to fix that04:19
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SquishyWaffleEh?04:20
jdubelmo's going to fix that ;)04:20
SquishyWaffleI assume elmo is a server admin?04:20
jdubyes04:20
jsgotangcoyeah04:20
jsgotangcono i mean the communication problem04:20
jduboh right04:20
jdubyes, there is going to be much rocking for breezy04:21
SquishyWafflegrowing pains :)04:21
jsgotangcoim going to send an email to the ubuntu-doc, ubuntu-devel about the planning a meeting about this as well as update on whats been happening on svn04:21
jdubour users will gasp and shiver!04:22
jsgotangcoi'm pretty worried about what will be delivered in time04:22
jdubjsgotangco: what's your planned time for the meeting?04:22
jsgotangcoprobably next week if its reasonable but time would be an issue04:22
jsgotangcoso i should get a consensus first04:23
jdubsometimes better to propose a time, and see how it fits04:23
jsgotangcohmm ok for us its not a problem04:23
jdubotherwise you'll just get a meandering thread with no resolution ;)04:23
jsgotangcobut for our euro fiends04:23
jsgotangcofriends04:24
jsgotangcoheh04:24
jdubfiends indeed!04:24
jsgotangcowhat time do you suggest?04:24
jeffschjsgotangco: propose a time that's best for you ;-), and we can take it from there04:24
jsgotangcookay04:24
jdubjsgotangco: would suggest not saying 'fiends' in announce mail ;-)04:25
jdubinterhemisphere war is uncomfortable at the best of times04:26
jsgotangco12UTC seems acceptable to majority04:26
jeffschhmmm.... 12UTC = 5am here04:30
jdubjeffsch: where are you?04:31
jeffschjsgotangco:  can i take back that part about choosing a time that's best for you? :-)04:31
jeffschVancouver04:31
jsgotangcowell ok its either 12UTC or 22UTC04:31
SquishyWaffleI'm going to have a nice addition to the Kubuntu Quick Guide ready in a while04:31
jsgotangcoawesome04:32
jeffschI like 22 better, but my availability is more likely at 12. I can give up sleep, but I prolly can't give up work.04:33
jsgotangcojeffsch, that styleguide is awesome04:34
jeffschIt's just a start...04:34
jsgotangcofor a start, its very neat04:35
SquishyWaffleIt's a good idea and is i needed to keep everyone on the same page04:35
jdubworth checking out the gnome documentation team guidelines too04:36
jdubvery useful04:36
jeffschyes. it would be good if we could get input from lots of people too... 04:36
jdub(heavily informed by some of the sun doc dudes)04:36
jeffschjdub: yes. there are lots of links to these thinks on StyleGuideDiscussion wiki page04:36
jdubahr, missed that one!04:37
jeffschI also have Read Me First! by Sun Technical Pubs04:37
jsgotangcoyou made a number of good references04:38
jeffschok, i have to go for a while. shower->Dr. Who->food.04:38
jeffschcya04:38
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SquishyWaffleok, tell ya what04:52
SquishyWafflelet me send you an update so you can see if I'm on the right track04:52
jsgotangcook send the patch and ill check04:52
SquishyWaffleok, what email do you want it sent to?04:54
jsgotangcohmm just send it to the list or if you're not confident about it, jgotangco@gmail.com04:56
SquishyWaffleok, I can do the list thing04:56
SquishyWafflesent04:57
jsgotangcook its still not there but it should arrive04:58
SquishyWafflejust now arrived for me04:59
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SquishyWafflenot sure if you'll have to apply kquickguide from the kde dir and the other one from the libs dir05:04
SquishyWaffleit was saying there were more changes than there were due to some multi-lingual stuff being funky so I had to do it from lower directories05:05
jsgotangcoi dont understand what you mean05:06
SquishyWaffleyou might have to reply those patches from directories other than the root ubuntu-doc05:07
SquishyWafflefor the KDE one, cd to the kde dir and apply it05:07
jsgotangco(english is not my primary language)05:07
SquishyWafflefor the global.ent one, cd to libs and apply it there05:07
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jsgotangcohold on i still get errors05:15
SquishyWaffleWhat kind of errors? During patching or when you launch Yelp?05:16
jsgotangcook i see the problem now let me revert back05:17
jsgotangcoi'll patch this in a few minutes and you'll see it in the commits list05:18
SquishyWaffledid I mis-match some tags in a rush to get that patch to you? :)05:18
jsgotangcoi just fixed some stuff05:18
jsgotangcoit messed a couple of stuff as well05:18
SquishyWaffleick, that patch went kinda funky05:19
jsgotangcoits ok we all learn for the first time05:19
SquishyWaffledid you see what I added?05:21
jsgotangcoquickguide patches are ok05:21
jsgotangcoglobal.ent theres not much to change05:21
SquishyWaffleyeah, added two lines I believe, changed a .com to a .org since it looks friendlier and non-commercial05:22
SquishyWafflewe don't have a mailing list index like Ubuntu does to link to so I made the two you had listed under Support clickable with links to the list page for each.05:23
jsgotangcohmmm05:27
jsgotangcobut we're moving to .com05:27
jsgotangcohenrik is the one doing that05:28
SquishyWafflewe're moving everything to .com?05:28
jsgotangcoif you notice we're all using ubuntu.com :)05:28
mptCan anyone tell me how similar Ubuntu's Gnome menu layout is to that of vanilla Gnome?05:36
jsgotangcoSquishyWaffle, done05:41
jsgotangcojust need to spellcheck05:42
SquishyWaffleok05:42
jsgotangcoif it's ok with you, i'll defer the global.ent patch for now to check what will be affected05:50
SquishyWafflesure, there will be some broken links on the Getting Help section05:50
jsgotangcoon kquickguide?05:51
SquishyWaffleyeah05:51
jsgotangcoi think it kind of affected some docs05:51
SquishyWaffleit shouldn't have, just added two lines05:52
SquishyWaffleunless the patch somehow got garbled05:52
jsgotangcook i'll just edit the global.ent myself then05:52
SquishyWaffleyeah, it's a quicky05:52
SquishyWaffleline 61 is where my two lines are added after05:52
SquishyWafflevalues: kubuntu-lists-users and kubuntu-lists-devel.05:53
jsgotangcook commited05:55
jsgotangcook svn up05:55
SquishyWafflegood deal, how did you like the sections I added?05:55
jsgotangcoyeah really nice man, thanks05:55
jsgotangcoi gotta eat first05:56
jsgotangcobrb05:56
SquishyWaffleok05:56
jsgotangcoill just post the commit later05:56
SquishyWafflek05:56
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=== Burgundavia has 338 unread emails
=== robitaille thinks Burgundavia doesn't spend enough time online to keep up with his emails
BurgundaviaI couldn'09:30
Burgundaviat check it yesterday09:30
BurgundaviaI am subscribed to the bugzilla and breezy changes09:31
robitaillefilters :)09:31
Burgundaviagmail has them09:31
robitailleI guess since I also subscribe to bugzilla, I probably reach a couple hundred e-mails per day as well...09:32
Burgundaviarobitaille, are you going to be at the next vlug meeting?09:32
BurgundaviaI would love to sit down with you after the meeting to talk about ubuntu-ca stuff09:32
robitailleplus another 50-100 per day at work..sigh09:33
jsgotangcohello canucks09:33
robitailleYes I'll try to be at the next vlug meeting09:33
Burgundaviarobitaille, great09:34
robitailleHi jsgotangco 09:34
Burgundaviasalut jsgotangco 09:34
robitailleso jsgotangco , when do you think we'll get our @ubuntu.com e-mails?  The topic keeps coming back today in various channels :)09:37
jsgotangcolet's bug elmo for that09:38
BurgundaviaI had a dream about the fridge (the ubuntu one)09:39
robitailleI already sent him an e-mail last week that got totally ignored...09:39
Burgundaviathat it was a seperate app09:39
Burgundavialaunched from within synaptic09:39
jsgotangcoomg09:39
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robitailleI have seen the Fridge...still pretty simple, but it's alive09:39
jsgotangcorobitaille, i guess he was pretty busy with sarge coming out09:39
robitailleyeah, that's what I thought, so I didn't push it with him.09:40
jsgotangcowell sabdfl reminded him about it last night09:41
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Burgundaviarobitaille, is the fridge live for all to view?09:49
robitailleBurgundavia,  no. I got a special sneak preview recently...it is on one of jdub web server.  There is nothing to see really yet.  It's no even  alpha release quality yet09:50
Burgundaviaah09:51
robitaillejsgotangco,   I have added the docteam meeting on the Wiki's Calendar09:51
jsgotangcothat's great..thanks09:53
jsgotangcoyeah, its on jdub's dsl09:53
jsgotangcoheh09:53
jsgotangcowow that article on sabdfl is a good read09:53
jsgotangcoi'm printing this for my wife09:54
robitaillewhich article?09:55
jsgotangco"The Right Stuff"09:56
jsgotangcohttp://free.financialmail.co.za/05/0603/cover/coverstory.htm09:56
jsgotangcoim amazed at the links i get from sounder09:57
robitailleone day all these links will appear on the Fridge :)09:59
jsgotangcowow10:00
Burgundaviayes, and MOTUGames has grand plans for the fridge as well10:01
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jsgotangcoi bought it in a sale bin10:01
jsgotangcohmmm loco-contacts mailing list10:03
BurgundaviaI learned that word geek originally meant circus side-show people who bit the heads off chickens10:05
jsgotangcohmmm where did you find it?10:06
robitaillethe word "loco-contact"  is reminding me of my worse Ubuntu problem these days...  (these canucks simply cannot organize themselves as a loco...)10:07
jsgotangcohah10:08
Burgundaviarobitaille, to be fair, neither of us has really stepped up and taken charge, as we are the most active in the greater Ubuntu community10:11
robitaillewell, I have tried a little bit...shook things a couple of times; organized an useless vote, etc.   But I'm sane enough not to volunter for the top job :)10:12
robitailleI cannot say organizing and managing  a loco is really a personal interest of mine10:13
Burgundavianor is it mine10:13
Burgundaviahmm http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4010863593.html10:16
jsgotangcoaiming for Windows98 is so 90s10:17
Burgundaviathere are a lot of 98 machines out there10:17
Burgundaviaand machines that shouldn10:17
Burgundaviat be running XP10:17
jsgotangcoalthough this can be a good start10:17
robitailleI run Win98 in my 2nd partition; it works fine for what I need it for (games for my 5 year old).  So does that mean I could switch him to Mepis :)10:18
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jsgotangcohmmm it just died10:21
Burgundaviawhat the heck?10:21
robitaillethat was weird.  And #ubuntu is now off-limit10:21
jsgotangcoyeah10:21
jsgotangcoeveryone got booted?10:21
robitailleI got booted10:22
robitailleanyway, that's a sign that I should go to bed (1:22am).  good night10:22
jsgotangcohehe night10:23
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jsgotangcoman you should live somewhere in europe instead10:25
Burgundavialol10:25
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KinnisonYou should10:57
Kinnisoncome here at once10:57
jsgotangcothere you already have a sponsor10:58
mdkemorning all11:30
mdkejsgotangco, hows it going?11:34
jsgotangcohey11:44
jsgotangcoi see you're awake already11:44
jsgotangcoand its only 5:44pm here11:45
mdke10.4511:45
jsgotangcohmmm i wonder how to mess up this box in inkscape11:47
jsgotangcomdke, ping11:54
mdkeyo11:55
jsgotangcothe email ok with you?11:55
mdkesure very good11:55
mdkeget a reply from Sean?11:55
jsgotangcono not yet11:55
jsgotangcoi hope so11:55
jsgotangcoif not, we'll do plan B then11:55
mdke?11:56
jsgotangcoPanic hehe11:56
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mdketoo much green tea again hey?11:57
jsgotangcoi drink that stuff everyday so its basically part of my bloodstream11:57
jsgotangcoprobably aroound 2l of it everday11:58
jsgotangcowell that Taylor dude made a nice patch with kubuntu11:58
jsgotangcoi think he's good material11:58
mdkeyeah looks keen12:00
mdkewhats this about changing global.ents?12:01
jsgotangcoits very minor i let the patch in so he could get a feel for it, but i'm going to fix it up later12:01
jsgotangcono sense in having so many double entries12:02
mdkeas long as there are no broken links12:02
jsgotangcosure they won't12:02
jsgotangcoit'll be a disaster12:02
mdkedid you say you were changing addresses to ubuntu.com?12:02
jsgotangcono not really, robitaille was asking about it i told him it's elmo that's supposed to do something about it12:03
mdkeoh ok12:04
mdkeubuntu.com is still a redirect afaik12:04
jsgotangcowell i don't really mind about it for now12:05
jsgotangcodoing screenshots is a such a bore12:06
jsgotangcoi found these neat british invasion cds at a sale12:08
mdkeDocteamDocBookTags is cool12:11
mdkei like that guy12:11
jsgotangcoyeah12:12
jsgotangcotwo contribs on the 1st day12:12
jsgotangcoheh12:12
mdkewow that page is gonna be so useful for new contributors12:12
jsgotangcoeven jeffsch think its great12:12
mdkehey jeff-away likes dr who?12:13
jsgotangcoi've never watched dr who in my entire life12:13
jsgotangco(its not available in my area)12:13
mdkeif I had a good upload speed i would send some to you12:15
mdkebut sadly it would take several days for one episode12:15
jsgotangcothat's piracy!12:17
jsgotangcoheh12:17
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mdkeyeah12:18
mdkei hear piracy funds terrorism12:18
mdkeand is sponsored by the devil12:18
mdkeright so what am I gonna do today12:21
jsgotangcoyou dont have class?12:23
mdkemy course is finished now12:24
mdkeas of last week12:24
jsgotangcowow12:24
jsgotangcoi want to go home already but its raining so hard outside12:25
mdke*grins*12:26
mdkeyou have monsoons there?12:26
jsgotangcoterrible man12:26
jsgotangcowe have typhoons12:26
jsgotangcohehe12:26
jsgotangcomonsoons are sissy12:26
mdkegosh12:26
mdkeis it warm rain tho?12:27
jsgotangcosometimes yeah12:27
jsgotangcobut not lately12:27
jsgotangcowhich means the rainy season is almost here12:27
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mdkebummer12:27
jsgotangcotrue12:27
mdkehi ealden 12:27
jsgotangcomy car is so small it might get submerged in flash floods12:27
mdke*grins*12:27
ealdenHi :) 12:27
mdkeat least you have a car12:28
jsgotangco(its bigger than a MINI though)12:28
mdkei would just drown straight off12:28
jsgotangcomdke, its a cheap korean car12:28
mdkeare they bad?12:29
jsgotangcoactually, its nice12:29
jsgotangcowww.picanto.com12:29
jsgotangcoi hear its quite popular in the UK12:29
mdkeah i know that12:29
mdkenever seen em here, but lots in italy12:29
jsgotangcojust bought it last november12:29
jsgotangcoealden, talk heh12:29
mdkebtw, check urls before you make em up ;p12:29
jsgotangcoeh?12:29
mdke*click*12:30
jsgotangcoare you talking about the email or the global.ent12:31
mdkepicanto.com12:31
jsgotangcohmmm12:31
jsgotangcowtf12:31
jsgotangcooh its www.kia-picanto.com12:32
mdkeargh12:33
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jsgotangcohah12:33
ealdenjsgotangco, heh12:34
jsgotangcoi'm in love with my car12:34
jsgotangco(its powered by steve jobs though)12:35
ealdenKernel upgrades...12:40
jsgotangcohmm i gotta go12:48
jsgotangcoits dark already12:48
jsgotangcomdke, later12:48
mdkeok12:49
mdkenight12:49
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mdkeshit01:02
mdkegnome 2.10 arrives in gentoo01:02
mdkemy system is gonna be tired...01:02
Burgundavialol01:02
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mdkei don't like the sound of that01:03
mdkedoes it involve ditching gentoo?01:03
=== Burgundavia imagines a machine without 100% less gentoo
Burgundaviaand thus 100% less compiling from source01:03
mdkehmm double negative01:03
mdkewithout 100% less gentoo = with 100% more gentoo01:04
Burgundaviahow does a source based distro lag so far behind?01:04
mdkethey test it for awhile01:04
mdkethe gnome team isn't very large iirc01:04
mdkeshit 46 packages to compile01:08
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Burgundaviarofl01:14
Burgundavialmao01:14
mdkehmm01:15
mdkeare you laughing at me or with me01:15
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mdkejdub, ping01:37
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Burgundaviamdke, laughing at you, sorry03:40
mdke*grins*03:41
mdkei'll have the last laugh 03:41
mdkeemerge: (20 of 46)03:41
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mdkehmm03:47
mdkealways got an answer haven't you03:47
mdkecheeky bastard03:47
Burgundaviayes03:48
Burgundaviato both statements03:48
mdke*laughs*03:49
mdke:)03:49
jdubmdke: pong04:02
Burgundaviajdub, I think he is wrestling his gentoo box to the ground04:09
mdkejdub, here i am04:14
mdkejdub, i contacted the founder of this channel recently and asked him to -t the channel, and also maybe transfer the foundership to you, he has made both of us ops04:15
jduboh ok04:15
jdubhrm, i should find someone who really knows about irc to give all of this to ;)04:15
mdke*laughs*04:15
mdke/cs access #ubuntu-doc list04:16
mdkejdub, sorry if I suggested the wrong person, i just figured, since you have #ubuntu and all04:18
jdubyeah, that's okay04:18
jdubeasier to handle in bulk04:18
mdke;)04:18
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mdkehey jalrnc 04:29
jalrncmdke: hi matt!04:29
mdkehow are ya04:29
jalrncmdke: I have a question04:29
mdkeshoot04:29
jalrncwe are translating the quickguide as you know, and it makes references to application names that show up in the gnome menus04:30
mdkeyes04:30
jalrncthose application names in gnome already exist when we install portuguese support with ubuntu04:30
mdkeyes04:30
jalrnc1. some of those names are not properly translated 2. we would like to have them corrected and so be consistent with quickguide04:31
mdkeah interesting04:31
jalrnchow do we go about correcting those menu names?04:31
jalrncbug? any other process?04:31
mdkeyou'll have to amend the translation in the relevant package04:31
mdkelets ask carlos04:32
jalrncI believe those translations were probably inherited from debian04:32
mdkeprobably come from gnome upstream04:32
jalrncor that, yes04:32
jalrncin that case maybe we should also contact the upstream maintainer/developer responsible for those translations?04:32
jalrncif he is portuguese, then it would be nice to have some coordination04:33
mdkeit may be possible to correct it in rosetta then push it upstream04:33
jalrncthat would work out too, yes04:33
mdke/j #launchpad04:33
jalrncbut it also depends on how the upstream developer feels about it, we don't want to cause any conflict, but some names really need some work04:34
mdkeok, join the #launchpad channel04:34
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mdkegoddammit05:18
mdke??changed:05:18
mdke-    * IMPORTANT: do not change the Page name of the SandBox page!05:18
mdke    * IMPORTANT: do not change the Page name of the MiguelRuiz page!05:18
mdkepeople are so thick05:18
jjessewhy would the MiguelRuiz page matter?05:24
jjesse:):05:24
jdubBurgundavia: dholback packaged istanbul05:30
Burgundaviajdub, I am reading the discussion right now. My heart is happy05:30
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mdkedholbach is so the man06:34
mdkejjesse, i had posted a diff, showing that the SandBox page had been renamed to a personal page. But he has taken care of it :)06:43
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jjessewelcome squishywaffle :)07:16
SquishyWafflehowdy07:16
mdkehi SquishyWaffle 07:51
mdkeawesome work already07:51
SquishyWafflehey mdke, thanks07:51
mdkei love the tag doc07:51
SquishyWaffleyeah, I had to have a cheat sheet since I've never messed with this stuff before and figured it'd be useful to make it public07:51
mdkevery useful07:52
SquishyWaffleSo are you guys just editing these docs in vim or equivalent editors or is there any WYSIWYG type deal available?07:53
mdkei use gedit07:54
mdkemost editors will have syntax highlighting07:54
SquishyWaffleYeah, vim has worked out very well07:54
mdkeok cool07:54
SquishyWafflethink we need to map out the structure of the ubuntu-doc tree, I had to fumble around to find the globals.ent file. That might be the next thing on my to-do list unless it already exists07:55
mdkefair enough07:55
mdkealthough care should be taken when editing those sort of files07:56
SquishyWaffleyeah, because the entries are often called by so many07:56
mdkeyes07:56
mdkeso removing things can break links etc07:56
SquishyWaffleI can include that on the structure page in bold lettering :007:57
mdkeok07:57
mdkebut generally the emphasis should be on writing the docs...07:58
SquishyWaffleyeah, I realize that but I like to fully understand something before I start breaking it from lack of understanding of the big picture :)07:59
SquishyWaffleLike if I didn't realize that globals.ent existed and just started statically linking to a bunch of stuff, it's inefficient and inflexible to change later07:59
mdkeyes thats fair enough07:59
SquishyWafflethat and I have too much free time right now08:00
mdke*laughs*08:00
mdkegood way of spending it08:00
SquishyWafflebut hey, I get paid to do this since I can justify working on it at work since we're a Kubuntu/Ubuntu shop08:00
mdkeurl?08:00
SquishyWaffleour page is awful pending migration to a new server :) http://gis.clemson.edu08:00
SquishyWafflelook at the last updated date08:01
mdkelooks alright08:01
SquishyWafflethat's a Win2k server that I finally bugged my boss to replace with a SuSe Enterprise 9 box08:01
mdkesounds cool08:02
mdkeso you are at uni as well?08:02
mdkeor you work at one?08:02
SquishyWaffleI'm both a student and an employee08:02
SquishyWaffleCollege is good for collaborative development, nothing beats living next door to a co-developer08:03
mdkeyeah i bet08:04
mdkeBe RiGhT bAcK08:05
mdkegonna try gnome 2.1008:05
SquishyWaffleyay :)08:05
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SquishyWafflewell you're here so I guess you didn't crash08:08
mdkelooks good08:08
mdkegnome 2.10 just made it into gentoo you see08:08
SquishyWaffleSo we had it before them?08:08
mdkeoh miles08:09
SquishyWafflethat surprises me08:09
mdkewell Ubuntu release dates are synchronised with Gnome08:11
mdkegentoo tests stuff for a while after they are released so it was quite late08:11
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SquishyWafflemy KDE never worked right on Gentoo, made me so mad08:13
SquishyWaffleI'd click on an mp3 and Xmms would launch like three times08:14
mdke:/08:14
SquishyWafflethink they fixed whatever it was08:15
mdkeyou would hope so!08:15
SquishyWaffleI know a kid that had an Inspiron, which is ungodly hot under normal circumstances. Did a complete stage 1 emerge along with KDE and OpenOffice in one swipe and the processor died08:16
mdkevery odd08:17
SquishyWaffleTheir fans sound like lawnmowers when they get hot :)08:17
SquishyWaffleone of the 5100's/5150's08:17
mdkeso the fan does not cool the processor properly?08:17
mdkethats good to know08:17
SquishyWaffleit's a cheap laptop with almost a desktop processor08:17
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SquishyWafflewell the nicer ones are great08:17
SquishyWafflebut the mid-low grade ones are spooky08:17
mdkeright08:18
SquishyWaffleonce you get into the ones with Centrinos they're very nice08:18
SquishyWaffleBut their P4-Mobility line is scary. I got like 45 minute battery life when I had mine08:18
mdkeno way08:18
SquishyWaffleAnd since the bios doesn't have working ACPI support under Linux, power management was awful and I lost even more time on Linux08:18
mdkethat sucls08:19
mdkesucks08:19
SquishyWaffleyeah, you have to recompile your kernel with a patch or two just to get basic ACPI support08:19
SquishyWafflewe've had a lot of luck with IBM's newer Thinkpads though, if you're looking for a new laptop soon08:19
mdkeright08:20
mdkei have been thinking about it08:20
mdkei've heard good things about thinkpads08:20
SquishyWafflecept for the R40's, have you seen the little light thing on the top of the lid? :)08:20
mdkei'll look em up08:21
SquishyWaffleno no don't consider that laptop, they're a disaster waiting to happen. They have this little light in the top of the lid that you hit like FN + F3 and it turns on to light your keyboard08:22
SquishyWafflebut they break down nonstop and the people who bought these things a few years back have nothing but bad things to say, we spend a lot of time working on them :(08:22
SquishyWafflebut the light is cool, heh08:23
SquishyWafflewe're going with the T42's for school next year. The high end model comes with a fingerprint scanner, that'll be neat to see on Linux when drivers are developed.08:23
SquishyWaffleAlthough it doesn't run Warty without considerable effort, it looks to do fine on Hoary08:24
mdkeright08:24
mdkeubuntu compatibility would be high priority08:24
SquishyWaffleyeah, definitely. Especially wireless08:25
SquishyWaffleOnly bad thing is those T42's have ATI cards and the drivers haven't been perfected yet so performance is dimished slightly in comparison to Windows drivers.08:26
jdubmdke: the dell X300 or X1 is a good choice (they're rebadged samsung Q20 and Q30s respectively)08:29
mdkei'll make a note08:29
mdkethanks jdub 08:30
mdkeSquishyWaffle, have you seen http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LaptopTestingTeam ?08:48
jjessei'm running a dell laptop on ubuntu w/ no issues08:48
jjesseinspiron 515008:49
SquishyWafflemdke: That sounds vaguely familiar, let me take a peek08:51
SquishyWafflejjesse: That's what I ran for a good while :)08:51
jjesseits works computer, no budget for a personal computer :(08:51
jjessedual boot xp and ubuntu08:51
SquishyWaffleit does work and it gets the job done but man the battery sucks08:52
jjesseyou're telling me, though i've never gotten supsed to disk working correctly, i blame having mysql server isntalled08:54
SquishyWafflejjesse: are you running KDE or Gnome?08:54
jjessestarted w/ gnome and then apt-get installed kde08:54
jjessei just prefer how kde looks then w/ gnome08:54
SquishyWafflehave you got your Function keys working for volume?08:55
jjessenope never looked into it08:58
SquishyWaffleI'm not sure how to go about it, had it working under Ubuntu because there's something that's included that allows for it09:00
jjesseis the fn key even mapped to anything?  i don't know how windows uses it09:01
SquishyWaffleno, but it doesn't appear to pick it up in the KDE key mapper09:01
jjessenod i tried that as well09:08
SquishyWaffleso does Mark Shuttleworth frequent meetings and/or the forums?10:27
mdkedunno about forums10:28
mdkehe is the boss, so he goes to meetings10:28
mptSquishyWaffle: Not at the moment, but he's said he'll be concentrating on that more in the second half of the year10:28
SquishyWafflewhat name does he go under when he is around?10:28
mpton the community side of things, I mean10:28
mdkehe is the head of the Community Council10:29
mptSquishyWaffle: sabdfl10:29
mptTen points if you guess what it stands for10:29
SquishyWaffleahh, I saw him on the meeting last night10:29
SquishyWaffleSome Awful Bears Dig for Lunch? :)10:29
SquishyWafflesouth african something10:29
mptI guessed South African something too, but no10:30
mptSelf-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life.10:30
SquishyWaffleI was right with the bears!10:30
mdkenot a clue10:30
SquishyWaffleahh, heh10:30
mpt(Google: "Did you mean: _asdfl_" ... Yeah, sure, like "asdfl" is a real word)10:31
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Burgundaviamdke, he is head of a little more than the CC10:34
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mdkeBurgundavia, well the question was about meetings10:36
Burgundaviatrue10:36
mdkeand community10:36
mdke[21:28:39]  mdke he is the boss10:36
Burgundaviaoh, didn't read far enough up10:36
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thesaltydog is there any goodwill mate who can spend 10 min. on this page and edit/review contents? http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/InitScriptHumanDescriptions11:07
Burgundaviathesaltydog, looking11:16
BurgundaviaI see inconsistent wording11:17
mdkei'll have a look too11:23
mdkeBurgundavia, are you editing that page now?11:23
Burgundavianope11:24
mdkeok cool11:24
Burgundavialooking currently11:24
mdkeok i'll have a go later then11:25
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mdkehi salty11:42
mdkethesaltydog11:44
thesaltydogmatt, sorry11:45
thesaltydogI was elsewhere11:45
mdkeno problem11:45
mdkehow are ya11:46
thesaltydogtrying to get that damn list, as I am in the need to release, due to a small bug11:46
thesaltydoga couple of guys has edited.11:47
mdkeok11:47
mdkei'm working on it now11:47
thesaltydogwhat I would recommend is this:11:47
thesaltydogwe need to use "common" language.11:47
thesaltydogi.e.11:47
thesaltydogfor xorg-common I have put " Main Graphical Interface"11:47
mdkesure11:48
thesaltydogmaybe it is not good, can be changed, but: "X-Windows System X.Org" (as it has been edited) has no sense11:48
mdkefine11:48
mdkei'm trying to make it user friendly11:48
thesaltydogso I have to change again11:48
thesaltydogis you are on the list, please change X.Org description to something simpler11:49
mdkeok i will11:49
mdkei haven't got there yet ;)11:49
mdkebut surely that is not an init script?11:49
thesaltydogwaddaya mean??11:49
mdkexorg-common is not an init script right?11:51
thesaltydogyes, it is..11:52
thesaltydogit runs on system runlevel, rcS.d11:52
thesaltydogthe 3rd tabbed view in BUM11:52
mdkehmm11:53
mdkestrange11:53
mdkealso sudo?11:53
thesaltydogwhy?11:53
thesaltydogyes also sudo11:53
thesaltydogthe init script "sudo" is a one-shot script that prepares to the use of sudo..11:54
mdkeok11:54
mdkeright i've made some alterations11:55
thesaltydogvery good11:55
mdkethesaltydog, couple of questions11:55
mdke1. is it useful do you think to explain the difference between acpid and apmd?11:55
Burgundaviamdke, where do I announce a new application in rosetta?11:56
mdke2. would it be a good idea to mark some services (e.g. dbus) as "important"11:56
mdkeBurgundavia, announce, or insert?11:56
Burgundaviaannounce11:56
mdkerosetta-users?11:56
thesaltydog1 - yes11:56
BurgundaviaI have worked with someone to get their app into rosetta11:56
thesaltydog2 -no. I could take care of this from the program...11:56
Burgundaviaand now we need to blow his socks off by getting a massive amount of translations for it11:56
mdkeBurgundavia, ok cool, rosetta-users and ubuntu-translators then11:57
mdkethesaltydog, ok fair enough11:57
mdkethesaltydog, i've resaved now11:58
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mdkethesaltydog, the other thing I was thinking, do you think it is necessary to rephrase things like "server", or do most people understand that?11:59
thesaltydogmdke, I was looking at your mods. Very good thanks.11:59
thesaltydogOnly one question:11:59
thesaltydog"Updates your details at DynDNS.org" which details??12:00
mdkeyeah i wasn't sure about that, but i didn't like "dynamic ip address"12:00
mdkei thought it was too technical12:00
Burgundaviamdke, are you signed up to those lists?12:01
thesaltydogyou're right, but somenone could understand "distinguishing marks"?? :-)12:01
mdkeBurgundavia, yeah12:01
Burgundaviawould you mind announcing this app?12:01
mdkeno12:01
Burgundaviahttps://launchpad.ubuntu.com/products/gepolabo/+translations12:01
mdkeok :)12:01
mdkeif you want to gimme a spiel about it, i'll include that12:01
mdkethesaltydog, i don't like distinguishing marks either :(12:02

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