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=== Topic for #ubuntu-doc: Ubuntu Doc Team - general discussion - backlog at http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs | Projects on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects | This channel tries to follow the tradition of the #gnome-love channel on irc.gimp.net, all new comers and questions are welcomed, as long as you follow the Ubuntu community code of conduct @ http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct first.
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Madpilot?09:52
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=== ..[topic/#ubuntu-doc:irc.freenode.net] : Ubuntu Doc Team - general discussion - backlog at http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs | Projects on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects | This channel tries to follow the tradition of the #gnome-love channel on irc.gimp.net, all new comers and questions are welcomed, as long as you follow the Ubuntu community code of conduct @ http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct first.
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=== Topic for #ubuntu-doc: Ubuntu Doc Team - general discussion - backlog at http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs | Projects on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects | This channel tries to follow the tradition of the #gnome-love channel on irc.gimp.net, all new comers and questions are welcomed, as long as you follow the Ubuntu community code of conduct @ http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct first.
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mdkehey jsgotangco 10:43
Madpilotah, people. having fun riding the splits?10:43
jsgotangcohey10:43
jsgotangcoso there's a split10:43
jsgotangcothat's why10:43
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jsgotangcowhats up?10:44
jsgotangcomdke: long time no chat10:44
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Madpilotserver mnt at freenode, actually. the main channel is bizarre10:44
mdkehi Madpilot 10:44
Madpilothi mdke10:44
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jsgotangcointernet is shitty on my side today10:45
Madpilot.ph is the Phillipines, right?10:46
mdkefor a change :)10:46
jsgotangcoright10:46
Madpilotsorry, just running whois on ppl... 10:47
jsgotangcoheh im staying more at home lately anyways10:47
Madpilotonly 198 users over on the main channel - least I've ever seen...10:48
mdkejsgotangco, i saw you say you've finished your job10:49
mdkegot any plans?10:49
jsgotangcomdke: i'm living off my savings at the moment looking at employment in a few days though10:50
mdkek10:50
jsgotangcoi can be your stenographer if you want :) i type 72wpm :D10:50
jsgotangcohehe10:50
mdkeyou should formalise your role as docteam secretary and talk to mark about a salary10:50
Madpilotthere isn't anyone @ Canonical whos primary responsibility is docs, right?10:51
jsgotangcoheh yeah maybe i should do that one time10:51
mdkeMadpilot, no10:51
jsgotangcoMadpilot: there is none at the moment, but that should change soon as the project grows10:51
jsgotangcoMadpilot: hence there is really no concrete direction at the moment10:52
mdkejsgotangco, you should do it right now :)10:52
jsgotangcoi've been helping out tsf though on the cookbook port but i should move it to tsf servers10:53
jsgotangcoonce i started forking it for edubuntu10:53
jsgotangcoi got an email from froud today turns out he admins those docs from tsf as well heh10:54
mdketsf?10:54
jsgotangcoshuttleworth foundation10:54
mdkehmm10:55
jsgotangcoim not surprised after all he did learn linux for them10:55
jsgotangcothey currently have a good project at the moment, the ICDL10:56
jsgotangcohttp://icdl.tsf.org.za/10:56
jsgotangcoif you look at the contact info its inwords.co.za :)10:57
mdkeheh11:00
highvoltagejsgotangco: what about inwords?11:00
highvoltagei'm just on jabber with Sean at the moment.11:00
jsgotangcohighvoltage: nothing really, just telling mdke about stuff hehehe its cool11:01
highvoltageok. cool.11:01
jsgotangcowhat's Sean's jabber ID?11:01
mdkehighvoltage, you can read the scrollback11:01
mdke10 lines11:01
highvoltageseanwhe@jabberafrica.org11:01
highvoltagemine is jonathan@jabberafrica.org, fwiw11:01
jsgotangcoi was thinking of helping out the icdl on the ubuntu part11:02
jsgotangcosince it already had mandriva and fedora11:02
highvoltagecool!11:02
jsgotangcook thanks11:03
jsgotangcomdke: are you aware of any docbook tags that resemble a footnote?11:04
MadpilotI've been adding to this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicCommands but I'm a near-total noob - I'm just adding the commands I'm finding helpful11:06
Madpilotif anyone has suggestions edit away!11:06
jsgotangcochecking...11:08
mdkeMadpilot, cool11:09
jsgotangcoMadpilot: nice one, i suggest simulating a CLI on the samples though11:09
mdkejsgotangco, they exist... i dunno what they are tho, I always just copy from existing stuff11:09
MadpilotI'm considering a total re-format, and there's a couple of things I need to add as well11:09
jsgotangcomdke: yeah im just doing an awful hack at the moment and its not even working for me11:09
jsgotangcoheh11:10
jsgotangcoi should look into that basic docbook wiki entry might be there11:10
Madpilotthe text switches between "terminal", "prompt" and "command line" at random - I need to rationalize that11:10
jsgotangcomdke: did you do this: DocteamDocBookTags11:11
mdkeno11:13
mdkeGreg did it11:13
jsgotangcoohh11:13
mdkei think it might be in the styleguide?11:14
mdkemaybe not...11:14
jsgotangcono its not there was a plan to incorporate some basic docbook tags on the stylguide and i was thinking of adding whats in the wiki entry11:15
jsgotangcoi remember jeffsch used to have a good wiki entry on docbook11:15
jsgotangcoit just needs to be re-written in an ubuntu context11:15
jsgotangcoi'll see you guys later, the father of a very close friend of mine died this morning after a long struggle with lung cancer11:19
jsgotangcolaters11:19
Madpilotlater, jsgotangco11:19
MadpilotI'm off myself. g'night/morning/whatever, all11:37
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jsgotangcois the xsl stylesheet for xml in hoary borked?03:21
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mgalving'morning all03:41
jsgotangcohey mgalvin03:42
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jsgotangcoman A9.com is awesome03:50
jsgotangcoAJAX on steroids03:50
jjessethat's the amazon search right?03:50
jsgotangcoyup that's an amazon research03:51
jsgotangcoi don't like the history stuff though03:51
jsgotangcoit kept reminding me that I checked out jessica simpson last night03:52
jsgotangcobut having google, images and wikipedia in one search is really nice03:52
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jsgotangcogood night all04:20
mdkenight mate04:20
jsgotangcowow04:20
jsgotangcomdke!04:20
jsgotangcowhy have you've been silent?04:20
mdkei'm at my computer less nowadays04:20
jsgotangcoi see04:20
mdkeso i use email more04:20
mdkein the last couple of weeks I've been quite busy with ubuntu-it04:21
jsgotangcoi'm trying to figure out this script i ripped from jeffsch04:21
jsgotangcoi see04:21
jsgotangcobye04:32
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jjesseslow day today?05:11
mgalvini can see the tumble weeds ;)05:12
mptwhoa05:16
mptTry opening an SVG document in yelp05:16
jjessebad news?05:16
mptendless cascade of yelp windows :-)05:16
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Burgundaviagrumble grumble09:38
Burgundaviadaniels cursed me09:39
BurgundaviaI haven't had a single issue with X until now09:39
Burgundaviaand now there is nobody here it bitch at09:41
jjesseproblems?09:45
Burgundaviayes09:46
Burgundaviait gets to the where it would boot X and just goes to a non-graphical login09:46
Burgundaviano attempt to start X09:46
Burgundaviaquite ironic, I got borked by the unborking release09:47
jjessethat sucks09:59
mptok, the Gnome User Guide is officially scary10:05
mptNumber of words in GUG's "Customizing the Desktop Background": 517. Number of words in Ubuntu Help's "Changing the desktop background": 117.10:08
jjessewow that is a ton10:10
mptI guess at some point the GUG was written by people who were paid by the word ...10:11
jjessewhat would be the reason for that many words?10:11
mptwell, there's a *lot* of repetition10:12
mptnot of sentences, but of phrases10:12
mptFor example, three sentences matching the pattern "Choose * from the Background Style drop-down list*"10:13
mptand just basic floweriness, like "Alternatively, you can select" instead of "Or choose"10:14
mptI don't go for fewest words, though, I go for fewest syllables :-)10:16
jjessego for best word10:16
mptfewest syllables usually leads to best word10:16
mptbecause a smaller word is much more likely to be common10:17
mpteasier to read, etc10:17
mptThe GUG also has a habit of doing a depth-first traversal of the interface, which leads to it explaining the bleeding obvious while not offering help on likely problems10:24
mptexample of the bleeding obvious: "The Pick a Color dialog is displayed. Choose a color, then click OK."10:26
mptexample of not offering help on likely problems: It doesn't even tell you how to find the Desktop Background preferences in the first place.10:27
Burgundaviaouch10:43
Burgundaviampt, you follow desktop-devel?10:43
mptyes10:44
Burgundaviathoughts on thread about device icon action?10:44
BurgundaviaI notice that OS X does the same thing as nautilus (show the file manager)10:45
mptMy personal opinion is that Nautilus should have a "View" > "as Album" mode that gives you a Play button for music files, pictures, and movies10:47
mpt(along with other buttons relevant to the filetype)10:47
Burgundaviaya10:48
mptbut I guess that's some distance from current reality and developer direction :-)10:48
BurgundaviaI personally think the default double click should be to play the dvd/cd10:48
Burgundaviathat is most likely what the person wants to do10:48
mptIn other words, I agree with those who want double-clicking on it to open the device window, *and* those who want double-clicking on it to open an interface for playing the media :-)10:49
Burgundaviayes10:50
Burgundaviagoing to play with by breezy system again, try and fix it10:54
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=== Burgundavia feels stupid now
BurgundaviaI accidentally removed gdm from my system11:04
Madpilotthat was brilliant11:05
Madpilothi Burgundavia11:05
Burgundaviasalut mon frere11:07
BurgundaviaMadpilot, are you not at work?11:07
BurgundaviaI have some very nice classical music. I should listen to it more often11:10
MadpilotI don't work Mondays - my week is Tues-Sat for now11:11
Burgundaviarandom app --> http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=99511:12
=== mpt wants xplanet built in to the Desktop Background prefs
Burgundaviathat would be cool11:53
Madpilotxplanet is the "live" Earth-from-orbit simulator, right?11:56
mptno, that's xearth :-)11:56
mptxplanet is Earth + other planets + Sun + Moon11:57
Madpilotvery cool. they're both in Hoary's repos, I see. any tricks to setting them up?11:57
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mptThe last time I used either of them was xearth in 199811:57
mptthough I did design the prefs for the non-Free (shame! shame!) OSXplanet11:58
Madpilotperhaps I'll mess with them later this week - and then write a wiki page about it!11:58

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