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Burgundaviahmm, nice opinion piece on lxer. Novell should by linspire, xandros and canonical12:22
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LaserJockhi mkde 12:30
mkdehiya LaserJock 12:30
mkdeall well?12:30
LaserJockoh, frantically working on many different projects12:31
LaserJocktrying to get taxes done this weekend :(12:31
LaserJocktrying to figure out if I can fix anything in Universe12:32
mkdeouch12:32
mkdehate the damn taxes12:32
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LaserJockwell, I just realized that I might not have all the info I need so I've got to got rooting around to find it :/12:32
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mkdeshall I do a pdf for the packaging guide?12:35
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LaserJockmkde: I don't know if it would be all the usefull at this moment  but I'd like to have it in the future for sure.12:36
LaserJockis it built like the html at doc.ubuntu.com?12:37
mkdeno, it's rather different12:37
mkdeit's a bit sucky right now, I don't know how to do snazzy colours and such12:37
LaserJockif it is a big deal don't worry about it. it would be nice to have it eventually though12:38
mkdeno, it's not a big deal at all, I've made them for the server/desktop guides12:38
LaserJockmkde: do you have to do them by hand? or do you have a cronjob?12:38
mkdeso far I've done them by hand12:39
mkdestill playing12:39
LaserJockyeah, I saw the serverguide pdf. It looks pretty cool even though it doesn't have the colors12:40
mkdeI'm gonna put a new one up, I've added some admonition images12:40
LaserJockah, I did notice that they weren't there. I am rather fond of them :)12:41
mkdeuploading now12:42
LaserJockmdke: URL? I forgot already12:45
mkdehttp://doc.ubuntu.com/test12:45
mkdepackaging guide is there12:45
LaserJockcool12:46
mkdeI'd like to get some coloured links, and such12:47
mkdebut I don't understand pdf making in any way12:47
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mkdeis a table of contents a good idea for the pdfs01:31
mkde?01:31
LaserJockhmm, it is nice if they are linked01:33
mkdeyes they are01:34
mkdealthough right now, the page numbers are wrong :D01:34
LaserJockhmm, well that would be a problem01:37
mkdeno, my bad01:38
mkdeactually, i just didn't realise the page numbers of the pdf are different to the page numbers of the document01:39
mkdeman, I'm thick01:39
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mkdeok /me masters the table of contents01:45
LaserJocksweet01:45
mkdereuploaded01:46
mkdenow then01:48
mkdethe tricky bit01:48
LaserJockohhhh, preeety :)01:48
mkdethose blank pages before the TOC, and the crappy invisible-to-the-naked-eye linking01:48
mkdeROCK02:02
mkdeblue links!02:02
LaserJockuploaded?02:06
mkdeuploading02:06
Madpilotmkde, which doc is this for?02:07
mkdeMadpilot: all the Ubuntu ones, i might do the kubuntu ones too02:07
mkdeuploaded. http://doc.ubuntu.com/test02:07
mkdemmm02:07
Madpilotlooks good. How much fine control do you have?02:09
Madpiloton pg23 of desktopguide.pdf, the title "Browse Network Computers" is on the end of one page, but all the actual content of that section is on the top of the next page02:11
mkdethat is doable02:11
LaserJockMadpilot: man, the layout nazi. mdke has just been trying to get the links to work ;-)02:12
MadpilotI read the backscroll, saw the links & pictures were working, and brought up the next thing I noticed :P02:12
mkde:))02:13
mkdei love this group02:13
Madpilotinteresting how much whitespace the <procedure> tag generates above itself in those pdfs02:15
mkdemight be a while before I get on to that one though02:15
mkdeI still haven't got a clue what I'm doing02:16
Madpilotwhich app are you using for creating the pdfs?02:16
mkdesomething called fop02:16
LaserJockI used that in Windows once to build pdfs of the packaging guide02:17
LaserJockbtw Windows really sucks for tying to do docbook work02:18
mkdeheh02:18
LaserJockand OSX only seems to work because I can install the *nix programs to do it02:22
mkdeMadpilot: looks like we can't fix the windowed sect2 titles02:23
mkdeat least with fop, it doesn't do it02:24
Madpilotah well 02:24
mkdecommercial software is required, it seems02:25
Madpilotor more complex stuff like importing our stuff into Scribus, which would be a lot of work02:26
mkdei don't think we can solve the procedure whitespace issue either :/02:28
robhi02:32
robhave you all seen this? http://live.gnome.org/LiveDocumentationEditing02:32
robthere is a live demo, it looks pretty good02:32
robnote that it hasn't been maintained in at least 6 months, but I could probably do something with it02:33
mkdecool02:33
mkdethat danilo guy is fricking awesome02:33
robyeah, he emailed me the other day about it02:33
mkdeoh yeah?02:33
robhe was sponsored under the google summer of code02:34
mkdehe saw your email to -devel?02:35
robyeah02:35
robits pretty much what I eventually envisioned, even more so02:35
mkdei wonder if he uses Ubuntu02:35
robbut needs a fair bit more work02:35
robbut thats where I'll come in :)02:36
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robI was originally going to help out on gai, but they pretty much have that covered (the new version is awesome)02:37
robmdke, how is the 6 week extention on dapper going to affect the docs?02:38
theCorehi LaserJock02:39
mkderob: there has been no decision on either thing02:39
mkdethe extension, or the effect on the docs02:39
robwell if it goes ahead (which it most likely will), will the docs be given the extra time too?02:40
mkdemy view would be to keep the string freeze the same, or move it by about a week02:40
mkdeand lump the extra time on translations02:40
robthey could use the time I guess02:40
mkdevery much so02:41
mkdethere is a LOT of stuff to translate02:41
mkdeand the docs are in great shape02:41
mkdebut anyhow, who knows if it will be delayed or not02:41
theCorea 6 weeks extension ?02:41
robmark emailed the lists02:41
mkdeMadpilot: ok actually the whitespace in lists thing is solved02:42
theCorelemme check this out02:42
LaserJockhi theCore 02:42
theCoreLaserJock: is there a section you would like I work out ?02:47
mkdeok, I've gone about as far as I am likely to get on the pdfs02:48
mkdeget em here: http://doc.ubuntu.com/pdf02:48
LaserJocktheCore: could you work on the appendix a bit?  fill it out02:48
mkdefeedback to the list :)02:48
theCoreLaserJock: no problem02:50
theCorerob: which mailing list ?02:50
mkdetheCore: -doc, -devel-announce, -art, etc02:51
MadpilottheCore, sounder, at least - don't think it went to doc02:51
LaserJocktheCore: particularly filling in the Additional Resources with little descriptions and adding a little text (Probably from the Debian New Maitainer's Guide) for the .ex example files.02:51
mkdeyeah was on doc too02:51
mkdelaunchpad, fridge02:52
LaserJockalso on the forums02:52
LaserJocktheCore: basically you missed out ;-)02:52
theCoreLaserJock: I work a lot these days, so I can't really keep up02:54
theCoreMy mailbox has 300 unread messages02:54
LaserJocktheCore: well, do what you can and send me short diffs, OK?02:55
theCoreokay02:56
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theCorethere something funny in my install ... 03:11
theCore( /etc/skel/Examples/Video/mdzzzz.ogg ;)03:13
mkdetheCore: yes03:13
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LaserJockarrghhh, I hate taxes >:(04:17
mgalvinbah, gmail is starting to annoy me04:39
mgalvinmdke: those pdf's look really great04:39
mgalvinif any issues can be worked out i would say to push forward and use the,04:40
mgalvinthey also provide readers with a way to properly print out the guides if they so choose04:41
mkdeI think they are shippable already04:41
mkdeI don't think they are going to improve much from here04:41
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robotgeekmdke: nice job on the pdf's04:47
Burgundaviaindeed. They look fine04:47
Burgundaviafine as in mighty fine04:47
mkdeheh04:49
Burgundavianot fine as in not great04:49
mkdegotcha04:49
Burgundaviadamn language04:49
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robotgeekwhy did dapper's delay hit slashdot04:50
robotgeekproposed nonetheless04:50
Burgundaviabecause slashdot is not news?04:50
Burgundaviawell flight 5 hit digg yesterday04:50
BurgundaviaI saw a great piece on cbc about marketing cool04:51
Burgundaviaand how Apple is cool04:51
BurgundaviaUbuntu is gaining something similar04:51
mkdenight all04:52
robotgeeknight mdke 04:53
robotgeekMadpilot: ping05:33
Madpilothmm?05:33
robotgeekhttp://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/libs/libdvdread3 says libdvdcss2 is unavailable, how do dvd's work in dapper?05:33
Madpilotno idea. I don't actually own any DVDs05:34
robotgeeksame problem here05:35
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MadpilotI can pick one up from work Monday, though, and test it on the Flight5 liveCD I'm torrenting. (I've got two optical drives)05:36
robotgeeknice, let me know05:36
robotgeekMadpilot: i think the nvidia settings needs to be changed in udg too, "nvidia-settings" is not installable in dapper05:37
robotgeekhowever, the binary is a part of the package itself, leading to a one line fix :)05:37
Madpilotrobotgeek, I've got an ATI card here - ask on the list for Nvidia owners05:38
robotgeeknvidia-glx package, i mean05:38
robotgeekMadpilot: i asked, you want me to go ahead and change it?05:38
Madpilotmight as well05:38
robotgeekcrap, Tm_T was wrong. 05:40
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Burgundaviayou need libdvdread3 as well as the css one05:51
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Burgundaviaand gstreamer0.10-dvd, but I don;'t know if that has been ported yet05:52
robotgeekBurgundavia: hmm, but libdvdcss is not available?05:52
Burgundaviathat is only avaibable through marilliat05:52
Burgundaviathere are legal issues with having it availabe05:52
Burgundaviaavailable, even05:53
robotgeekthey got rid of the script?05:53
Burgundaviawhat script?05:54
robotgeekokay, it is still in there. 05:55
Burgundaviathe one to download libdvdcss2?05:55
robotgeeksomeone complained about a amd64 version05:55
Burgundaviathe sticking point is that with totem-gstreamer, there is gstreamer0.10-dvd plugin yet05:57
Burgundaviaok, asking on #gstreamer about dvd playback05:59
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Madpilothi jsgotangco 06:15
Burgundaviasalut jsgotangco06:15
robotgeekhey jsgotangco 06:15
jsgotangcohi!06:16
jsgotangcohey all, nice to be back home :)06:16
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mgalvini was going to commit all my screenshots to svn06:58
mgalvinwhere are we keeping new ones now (C|en|both)?06:58
jsgotangcoohh i didnt know flight 5 came out already06:59
mgalvinyup, digg.com jumped the gun on the announcement so tollef released it today07:00
jsgotangcothe pumpkin release07:00
jsgotangcoheh07:00
mgalvin:)07:00
jsgotangcothat's the problem with sites allowing communities to actually post07:00
jsgotangco:/07:00
mgalvinyea, on that note, to prevent further ramblings on the review pages, henrick and i move all the flight reviews to www.ubuntu.com07:01
mgalvinits a better setup to handle the load anyway07:02
jsgotangcoyes that's better07:02
jsgotangcoa lot of press has been using the wiki lately as reference and dub it official07:02
mgalvinmeh, i will just commit them in both places (since that is how it is now) and we could always remove what we don't need07:06
mgalvini figure we could probably use some of them for other things too07:07
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jsgotangcowhat you'll have to prepare now is consolidate all the changes in the future to be used a release notes07:22
mgalvinyup07:27
mgalvinhas anyone worked on the dapper release notes at all?07:27
jsgotangconone yet07:28
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jsgotangcowell i used to have a draft07:28
jsgotangcofor breezy07:28
jsgotangcowell it was actually used for breezy07:28
Burgundaviahave you seen what davyd has done with the gnome 2.14 stuff?07:28
mgalvinBurgundavia: yup07:28
jsgotangcoyou can just continue DapperReleaseNotes and consolidate everything07:28
mgalvinhow does the string freeze effect release notes?07:28
mgalvinwould i have to get in done with the next few days or so07:29
jsgotangconot at all07:29
mgalvinyea, i see the breezy notes in svn07:29
jsgotangcoits a very dynamic doc and its much better to do it on a wiki07:29
jsgotangcoso that even the others can contribute to it07:29
Burgundaviagnome builds their release notes out of cvs with docbook07:29
Burgundaviawe should investigate how they do this and harness for ourselves07:30
mgalvinyea, i like doing the reviews on the wiki but they are less official... the official release notes should probably live in svn/docbook07:30
mgalvini can certainly investigate gnomes process a bit07:31
Burgundaviawe can probably build a wiki markup instead of an html markup07:32
mgalvini will probably take a crack at putting together the dapper release notes over the next few days07:32
jsgotangcoif you're going to do it in svn, i'll look at it too since i did the previous one07:32
mgalvinhmm, true, we could easily build both07:33
jsgotangcomy wiki monitoring has been out of control lately07:33
mgalvinok cool07:33
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Burgundaviasalut robitaille07:38
robitailleBonsoir Burgundavia 07:42
mgalvinare both the release notes docs going to be used or should i just create a new one for dapper and leave the old one alone?07:52
Burgundaviamgalvin: you talking about the breezy ones?07:58
mgalvinBurgundavia: yes, there is release-notes.xml and breezy-release-notes.xml... should i create dapper-release-notes.xml and update release-notes.xml or just create the new dapper-release-notes.xml and leave the other as is?08:01
jsgotangcolol i post a picture of a girl on planet and it gets 40 hits in less than an hour08:02
mgalvinhehe :)08:03
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jsgotangcolol08:03
robotgeek4208:03
jsgotangcostupid phone camera can't even make decent photos at 1.3MP08:03
robotgeeki need to track the visits to my blog, 1377 visits since march 02, 2006. seems unnatural :P08:05
jsgotangcothe G-A-I screenshot i made had 1,521 hits08:06
mgalvinjsgotangco: when you created the breezy-release-notes.xml did you also update release-notes.xml?08:06
jsgotangcono08:07
jsgotangcorelease-notes.xml is very very old08:07
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mgalvinok, then i will leave it alone08:07
jsgotangcolol08:07
mgalvineverybody loves screenshots08:08
mgalvinexcept ISP's08:08
Burgundaviano, they love them too, if you pay them per GB08:08
mgalvinoh yea! :) i've had over 200GB of data transfer since making those... hence another reason for moving them to the main site08:10
mgalvinalthough luckily is have stayed under the limit08:10
mgalvins/is/i08:11
jsgotangcoi have a dedicated server on the west coast that has 2,000GB of data transfer but its not cheap either08:11
Burgundaviajsgotangco: west coast of where?08:11
jsgotangcous08:11
Burgundaviaah yes08:12
Burgundaviaok, why the hell is my editor still up at 3am?08:12
jsgotangcothey have lots of bandwidth08:12
Burgundaviaand checked her work mail?08:12
jsgotangcolol08:12
jsgotangcodon't you like that08:12
jsgotangcoheh08:12
BurgundaviaI think I am going to write a book called "Writing a book is hard"08:13
jsgotangcorobotgeek: why is there a section about installing quake?08:14
robotgeekjsgotangco: hmm, it was in udg, so i left it in there08:14
robotgeekhttp://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/games.html08:15
Burgundaviaprobably a remnant of the ubuntuguide08:15
jsgotangcois quake packaged or redistributable?08:15
robotgeekif you ahve the cd08:15
jsgotangcorobotgeek: personally, what is not in our repositories should be removed08:15
robotgeeki think you can also apt-get install quake3?08:15
robotgeeklemme see08:15
Burgundaviano08:16
Burgundaviathere is free data for quake and quake2, but nothing yet for quake308:16
robotgeekyeah, i wouldn't mind nuking it08:16
robotgeeki don't play games anyways :)08:16
jsgotangcowonder if someone packaged aleph one08:16
Burgundaviagames are for people avoiding doing things like *cough* writing books *cough*08:17
mgalvingdebi is really neat for these late tired and lazy 2 am hacking sessions08:18
mgalvinone less command to type :)08:18
robotgeekheh, commented out. 08:18
robotgeekoh, i have to copy over the graphics section now08:19
Burgundaviarobotgeek: just nuke it08:20
robotgeekBurgundavia: okies08:20
Burgundaviacommenting out is like #ifdef-ing stuff08:21
Burgundaviait means that you are trying to avoid pissing somebody off08:21
Burgundaviaand can't come to consensus08:21
robotgeekyeah, i'll nuke it08:21
jsgotangcorobotgeek: my rationale for nuking some sections like quake is that dapper will have 3 years on the desktop hence, an admin will have to bear with 3 years of users installing such apps08:22
robotgeekjsgotangco: +108:23
mgalvingood night all08:28
jsgotangcociao08:28
robotgeeknight mgalvin 08:28
Burgundaviaour release notes should be more graphical08:29
Burgundaviaour press release can be non-graphical08:29
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robotgeekshould scribus be in office or in graphics?08:35
robotgeeki have no clue about dtp08:35
robotgeekand graphics too :)08:35
robotgeekis Krita the kde equivalent of Gimp08:35
Burgundaviagraphics08:35
Burgundaviaand yes08:35
robotgeekgrumbles08:36
robotgeekjsut when i thought i wa done :)08:36
jsgotangcoyes08:37
jsgotangcorobotgeek: just install a new kubuntu build and it should be in a correct category08:37
robotgeeki actually havent seen scribus in action yet08:38
jsgotangcolol08:38
robotgeekstep 1 -> open adept, step 2 -> isntall step3 -> launch from Kmenu -> wherever08:39
robotgeekdone!08:39
robotgeekjsgotangco: beat this, i has menu entries in both graphics and office :)08:40
robotgeeki'm putting it in graphics, i don't care if you use it in your office 08:41
MadpilotBurgundavia, in Ubuntu, Scribus is in the Office submenu08:43
jsgotangcohrmmm08:44
jsgotangcojeezz its probably around 31C here at the moment08:44
robotgeeknice08:44
BurgundaviaMadpilot: hmm08:45
MadpilotIt's around 2C here, we had actual snow a few nights ago08:45
robotgeekMadpilot: i am wondering how to include the bookinfo credits for you guys09:14
Madpilotfor the Ubuntu Desktop Guide authors, you mean?09:15
robotgeekkdg is based on udg, so the current author list from udg must get credit09:16
Madpilotput the KDG group first, then say something like "KDG is based on the UDG, which was worked on by the following additional people:"09:18
robotgeekthere is not group, as such. for kdg09:18
robotgeeki basically had to rewrite the entire sections09:19
robotgeek:w09:20
robotgeeksorry, wrong window09:20
robotgeekcommitted, i'm out09:37
Madpilotlater, robotgeek 09:38
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Burgundaviaanybody else having issues with google?11:53
jsgotangcomine is pretty good11:58
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Burgundavianight all12:41
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LaserJockhi mdke_  and Madpilot 11:43
Madpilothi11:43
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