/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/02/14/#ubuntu-manual.txt

godbykhumphreybc: ping03:45
humphreybcgodbyk: pong03:46
godbykhumphreybc: I edited your installation chapter a little to test out the new \screenshotTODO command.  You can check it out.03:46
humphreybccool have you pushed it/03:46
godbykIt'll add "MISSING SCREENSHOT / Screenshot description" to the PDF so it's obvious that something is missing.03:47
godbykIt also generates a list of the missing screenshots and outputs them to screenshots.log file.03:47
godbykYep, it's pushed.03:47
humphreybccool03:48
humphreybcgodbyk: that looks great!04:26
godbykhumphreybc: thanks.04:26
godbykI'll make commands to insert the screenshots after we've got some to play with.04:26
humphreybcif you could email the ML with instructions on how to use the command so authors can put it in, then that'll be great :)04:26
godbykSure04:27
vishhumphreybc: hey.. did you send out reminders that the title page was updated?04:29
godbykvish: It automatically incorporates it into the PDF.04:31
vishgodbyk: yeah... i was mentioning the blogs/sites that humphreybc had sent out the old one [he had asked me to update the text and forgotten that i had updated it]04:33
godbykvish: Ah, I see.04:33
vishgodbyk: timezones suck fwiw :/   i received humphreybc 's mail at 4am and still i made sure it was done by 4pm somehow humphreybc had missed the branch update04:35
godbykYeah, time zones are a pain.04:36
humphreybcvish: yep should be updated soon04:45
godbykhumphreybc: ping07:18
humphreybcping07:18
humphreybcwait07:18
humphreybcpong :)07:18
humphreybcgodbyk: what's up?07:19
godbyklol07:19
godbykI was just going to ask if it made more sense to do the ground control tutorial before the latex tutorial.07:20
godbykthat way people could kind of follow along each step as we explained it and walk them through getting started.07:20
humphreybcyeah I want to do that but then i'd have two sessions in a row07:24
humphreybcactually07:24
humphreybcthat should be okay07:24
humphreybci didn't want to have two sessions in a row in case one of mine goes over an hour and screws the whole schedule up07:25
humphreybcbut it's only the introduction07:25
humphreybci'll change stuff around now07:25
godbykokay.07:26
humphreybcdone07:34
godbykcool.07:40
humphreybcI'm thinking we should change the group to restricted?07:55
humphreybcinstead of open?07:55
humphreybcbecause there are a lot of people still joining who aren't really doing much07:55
godbykDoes it hurt anything?  I mean, are they doing any damage, or does it hurt to have people sign up and not do anything?07:56
humphreybctrue, good point07:57
humphreybcit does make our team look disproportionately large though :P07:58
godbykHeh.. that's true.07:59
godbyk253 members.. wow!07:59
humphreybcyea08:01
humphreybclol08:01
humphreybci don't think we have 253 people actually working on it08:01
humphreybcwe have 120 fans in our facebook group too which is awesome08:01
humphreybcwhat's up with this branch merge? https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual/ubuntu-manual/main/+merge/1914908:02
humphreybcand what ever happened to manualbot08:02
humphreybc:P08:02
godbykI'm not sure what that means.  Hmm...08:03
godbykI think they're trying to take the updated main branch stuff and merge it into their own translated branch.08:06
godbykbut I'm not sure08:06
humphreybclol08:07
humphreybcme neither O.o08:07
humphreybcI added in some more screenshot ToDos08:07
humphreybcdo you want me to make an 800 x 600 screenshot placeholder image for you to fiddle with?08:07
godbykCan you just take a few screenshots that we can use as examples?08:08
humphreybci could but i don't have lucid in a Vbox08:09
godbykMaybe grab 'em at different resolutions, too.  So we can see how big they all are.08:09
humphreybcVbox doesn't like my custom kernel08:09
humphreybci was just going to whip some up in photoshop08:09
humphreybcjust template things08:09
humphreybcbut actual shots would make sense08:09
godbykWhy not just take some of your own desktop at the different resolutions?08:10
humphreybcheh righto08:10
humphreybcmy max res is 1280x80008:10
humphreybcsquares?08:10
godbykWe should get some realistic test cases for testing?08:10
godbyksquares?08:11
humphreybcwell a 16:10 screenshot would be too wide, no?08:11
godbykOh.. well, 800x600 is a 4:3 ratio.08:13
godbykNot sure if it matters too much at this stage.08:13
humphreybcokay i've taken three, one of the full desktop, one of just one window, and one small one of just a dialog box08:14
humphreybchttp://humphreybc.homeip.net/files/sampleshots.zip08:16
humphreybctry those out for size in chapter 108:17
godbykMy desktop is 3200x1600 stretched across two monitors, so it's a bit more difficult to take normal-looking screenshots. :)08:17
humphreybcwe need someone with a 4:3 monitor08:17
godbykI've got 'em downloaded08:17
humphreybcsweet08:18
humphreybcso i suppose all you'd need is a command that imports them, puts them in the center, gives a bit of padding and a 2px border08:18
humphreybcprobably just under black for the border08:19
godbykWill they need captions or be cross-referenced (e.g., "See Figure 1.")?08:19
humphreybccaptions i think08:20
humphreybcso yeah that too08:20
humphreybcmaybe something like08:20
humphreybc"Figure 1: The default Ubuntu GNOME desktop"08:20
humphreybcand then we can cross reference too08:20
humphreybcso "As you can see in figure 1 below, Ubuntu uses GNOME for..."08:20
godbykOkay, so with LaTeX there's something that can be initially a little confusing about figures.08:21
godbykDo we want the figures to be exactly where you put them in the text or allow them to float (that is to move around on the page to wherever they look best)?08:22
godbyk(Where 'look best' is defined by LaTeX.)08:22
humphreybchmm08:22
godbykThere are pros and cons to both options.08:22
humphreybci think we'd want control over placement08:22
humphreybcwhat do you think?08:22
humphreybccan you set some rules for what latex thinks is best?08:23
godbykIf you say you want to control the placement, then you'll end up with (potentially) lots of white space around to fill out the page.08:23
godbykYou can make suggestions to LaTeX.08:23
humphreybcwell, whatever you think will look best08:23
godbykSo you can say, "LaTeX, I'd prefer that you place the image right here, but if you don't feel up to it, try the bottom of the page and then the top of the page."08:23
humphreybcyou know more about it than I08:23
humphreybcwell that sounds good08:24
humphreybcwhat would be the reasons for it not feeling up to it? bad day at work? nagging wife?08:24
godbykIt seems that way sometimes.08:24
humphreybcso it's inexplicable?08:24
godbykIt likes to have a minimum amount of text on each page, for instance.08:24
godbykSo if putting your image there means there's not enough text on the page, the image may get bumped.08:25
godbykWe can tweak those parameters, but there's still a little quirkiness sometimes.08:25
humphreybcah okay08:25
godbykNot really inexplicable, just *difficult* to explain. :-)08:25
humphreybcand i suppose stuff like having sentences not jump over the page etc will have to be done by hand when everything's set?08:26
godbykhttp://kevin.godby.org/private/ubuntu-manual/main.pdf08:26
godbykI had it scale the images to fill the text-width.08:26
godbykBut we won't really want to do that for all the images (like small dialog boxes).08:27
godbykWhat do you mean 'sentences not jump over the page'?08:27
humphreybcyou know like page breaks in bad places08:28
humphreybclike the end of the prologue has one bullet point on the last page, and then about 5/6 of it is white space08:28
humphreybcwow, 1mb with 3 images?08:29
* godbyk looks at the prologue08:29
godbykYou mean on page xi and xii?08:30
godbykWhere there are five lines that are on page xii?08:31
humphreybcapparently the PDF document you gave me is damaged08:33
godbykIt is?08:34
godbykHmm.08:34
godbykI'll regenerate it and upload it again.08:34
godbykhumphreybc: Try it again.08:35
godbykHey, thorwil08:35
thorwilhi godbyk08:35
godbykhumphreybc and I are just playing around with some screenshot stuff.08:37
godbykhumphreybc: Did that new pdf work okay?08:37
humphreybchold up08:37
godbykk08:38
humphreybcis it your home server?08:38
godbykhttp://kevin.godby.org/private/ubuntu-manual/main.pdf08:38
godbykIt's my web space, yeah.08:38
humphreybcthose screenshots aren't too bad. the resized ones look bad tho08:40
humphreybclatex/evince resizing of screenshots is horrid08:40
humphreybcor images in general08:40
humphreybci've noticed it in other publications08:40
godbykYeah, it's generally a bad idea.08:40
humphreybcand yes, prologue xi and xii08:40
humphreybcso the one of the software center turned out the best08:41
humphreybcwhat res is that?08:41
godbyk860 x 53308:41
humphreybcyeah so closest to 800 x 60008:41
humphreybcmakes sense08:41
humphreybcthe other ones look okay if you zoom to the right size08:41
godbykCould also try doing weird things like using a high screen resolution, but setting the dpi/pitch to 300 instead of 96 or whatever the default is for the monitor.08:42
godbyknot sure how the monitor would like that, though.08:42
godbykthe lower the resolution, the larger the text will appear.08:43
humphreybcyea08:43
humphreybchm08:43
humphreybcyou know that small one of the dialog box08:56
humphreybcdid latex stretch that to fit?08:56
humphreybcbecause it looks very big08:56
humphreybcwe're going to have a lot of images of single windows or boxes about that size08:56
godbykyeah, it's stretched.08:57
humphreybcdarn08:57
humphreybccan you disable that?08:57
godbykI basically told LaTeX to make all the graphics fit perfectly within the line width.08:57
humphreybcie a rule to "use native resolutions unless it's bigger than the width of the document, then resize"08:57
godbykSo it stretched or shrank them to make them fit.08:57
humphreybcwe want to minimize resizing down, and we want to have _no_ resizing up08:58
godbykI may be able to whip up something like that.08:58
godbykRight.08:58
humphreybcyeah, the images have to look really nice and professional08:58
humphreybceven keir thomas' pocket guide and makeuseof karmic guide's images look terrible08:59
godbyknice and professional images often make the PDF size explode, unfortunately.  But we'll see if we can't strike a nice balance.08:59
humphreybcin evince, at least08:59
godbyklink?08:59
humphreybchttp://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html08:59
humphreybchttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-incredible-guide-to-ubuntu-karmic-koala-linux-pdf/08:59
humphreybcwe probably won't be getting on the Lucid CD, so that means we don't have to worry about file size so much for this release09:00
humphreybcobviously we still want to keep it down, but it's not crucial09:00
humphreybcwhat we *could* do in the future is take a lighter version of our manual for the CD inclusion. Perhaps just the first half, less screenshots and lower quality screenshots09:00
thorwilheh, i told you resizing would look bad. glad to see file size considerations pushed back a bit :)09:06
godbykthorwil: Yeah, I don't see much way around that.  When they're not scaled, they're huge.09:08
humphreybcwell most of our shots shouldn't be that huge09:08
humphreybcwe'll only really have one or two full desktop shots at most09:08
godbykIt's possible that another program (gimp, imagemagick, other) may do a better job of scaling than the internal LaTeX stuff does, too.  But it still won't be picture-perfect.09:08
thorwilin cases where you might have shots of dialogs of varying size, it might be preferable to have the same DPI, instead of scaling each one to match a height or width09:09
godbykthorwil: Yeah, that's what we'll probably be doing.09:09
humphreybci might try printing some of the manual now and see how it turns out09:10
godbykScaling the shots humphreybc just sent me to 1/2 the size doesn't look too horrible and fits on the page fairly well (though still a bit too large).09:10
godbykhumphreybc: All 99 pages? :-)09:10
humphreybc99 pages now?! wow09:10
humphreybcnot all 99 pages lol09:10
humphreybcjust a couple from the prologue probably09:11
thorwilgodbyk: wait, are you talking on changing dpi or actually resizing the image as in changing the amount of pixels?09:11
godbykuh..09:11
humphreybc:D09:11
godbykI'm not sure what LaTeX does when I say scale=0.5.09:11
godbykI don't know what scaling method it's using.09:11
humphreybcslightly unrelated, godbyk how easy is it to put the revision number on the license page? i saw that come up in the meeting09:12
godbykhumphreybc: Yeah, I have to look into the bzr details of that. I know most versioning systems will let you do that, but I have to see how to do it with bzr.09:12
thorwilgodbyk: what i have been saying all the time is that you should not change the amount of pixels in screenshots09:12
godbykthorwil: I understand.09:13
humphreybcleave the pixeeeels!09:13
thorwilneed to be clear, it's all too easy to run into misunderstandings ;)09:13
humphreybcfair enough09:14
* humphreybc thinks it's pretty amazing that his server has uploaded 2GB of "main.pdf" in the last two days09:15
thorwilhumphreybc: i have a list in front of me: icons: "Advanced", "Warning", ("Tip"), Icons per Chapter09:15
thorwilvish: ^09:16
godbykIt looks like it's up to the PDF viewer to scale the image.  The image gets included as-is and the PDF viewer scales it however the PDF file wants it scaled.09:16
godbyk(I think..)09:16
thorwilthat's what should happen09:16
humphreybchmm okay09:17
humphreybci wonder what it looks like under adobe reader in windows or mac09:17
humphreybci think it is a problem with evince because other publications present the same issues09:17
vishthorwil: already most of those icons are in humanity , of if you want simple glyph style icons i have those too09:18
vishor if*09:18
humphreybcwe can probably use the humanity icons09:18
godbykI was trying to see what it looked like in acroread under linux, but it keeps locking up on me.09:18
humphreybcthe default install uses humanity right?09:18
vishthorwil: i did them for evince annotations support , we could use the dsame09:18
vishhumphreybc: yeah09:18
thorwilvish: could you add matching icons of both sets to the wiki, please?09:18
humphreybcanyone got windows or mac lying around?09:19
vishthorwil: which wiki page?09:19
humphreybcvish: artwork/icons or something09:19
thorwilvish: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork/Icons09:19
humphreybcwallah :D09:19
vishthats better :D09:19
vishthorwil: hmm , i need to create new page?09:21
godbykloading it up in acroread on linux, it looks pretty decent, actually.09:21
thorwilideally, we would include icons in vector form09:21
humphreybcawesome09:21
thorwilvish: yes. just rough if it in, i can clean it up if you don't fell like09:21
thorwilfeel, even09:21
humphreybcgodbyk: re the daily builds, at the moment i'm putting each revision up on my server09:21
vishk.. its just that wiki sucks ;p09:22
godbykhttp://kevin.godby.org/private/ubuntu-manual/Screenshot.png09:22
godbykevince on the left, acroread on the right09:22
thorwilvish: if you ask me, we should have something looking more like the fedora wiki, but with wysiwyg editing, taking images per drag'n'drop09:23
thorwilbut the wiki as is is preferable over things getting lost09:24
vishhmm , never been to the fedora site ;)09:24
godbykthorwil: Speaking of vector form.. do you know how we can covert our SVGs to *nice*-looking PDFs? Inkscape seems to puke on the gradients or alpha or something.09:24
humphreybcgodbyk: nice09:24
* godbyk loves his dual monitors and can't stand working without them.09:25
thorwilso Evince does linear interpolation or not even that, i guess09:25
godbykthorwil: I think it just picks random pixels in the area and chucks them.09:26
thorwilgodbyk: i would guess alpha is the main problem.09:26
thorwilgodbyk: yeah, shameful. somehow i refused to believe it's no interpolation at all09:27
godbykI have other issues with evince, too.09:27
vishthorwil: so thats, only these 3 icons >  "Advanced", "Warning", "Tip"  ?09:27
godbykFor instance, if you have the full version of texlive installed, try running 'texdoc fontspec'09:28
thorwilvish: Tip isn't in use, even09:28
thorwilvish: but there should be icons per chapter09:28
godbykevince just refuses to render some of the text (set in a particular font).  (and yes, the font is embedded)09:28
vishthorwil: so only the 2 means, the warning we can use the dialogue-warning icon and the advanced- we can use the system properties icon?09:29
dutchieis it just me that is seeing all the contact details squashed on to one line?09:30
thorwilvish: we don't know if we can use them as is09:30
thorwilvish: first step is to see what's there ;)09:30
vishthorwil: all are vector icons , just have a look at the usr/share/icons/humanity09:30
godbykdutchie: where?09:31
dutchiebottom of the first page of the prologue09:32
godbykdutchie: Ah, yeah.09:32
dutchieI can see \smallskips in the source09:32
dutchiethey don't seem to do anythin09:32
dutchieg09:32
godbykdutchie: Right.. there needs to be blank lines between to separate the paragraphs.09:33
dutchieyep09:33
godbykI blame humphreybc. :)09:33
* dutchie fixes09:34
humphreybc:D09:34
humphreybcso i was just thinking while waiting the the jug to boil09:35
humphreybcit's going to be a mission to get the screenshots in english, let alone in over 40 languages09:35
humphreybcwe're going to need some sort of factory full of mexicans churning out screenshots09:35
dutchieglobal jam09:35
dutchieperfect for this sort of thing09:35
humphreybcwe might have to target perhaps 10 main languages to get screenshots for, and the rest can be english until we slowly implement them eventually09:36
humphreybctrue09:36
humphreybcso we need some method that makes it easy for anyone to capture screenshots we want in the correct language, and put them somewhere for us to use09:36
dutchieif we can encourage someone like jono to publicise it as a thing to do09:36
dutchiehumphreybc: wiki?09:36
humphreybchmm yeah09:36
humphreybcautomated would be cool09:37
humphreybci smell the need for a simple screenshot capturing tool09:37
dutchiedoes the screenshot todo thing make a list yet?09:37
humphreybcdesigned for our project...09:37
dutchiegodbyk: ^^09:37
humphreybcyou start up the program, choose your language, then take a screenshot (you can select a window) and then it gets uploaded automatically to the correct place with the correct language09:37
thorwilvish: where's the system properties icon?09:38
humphreybcand the screenshots are all set to the same dpi09:38
dutchieit would be about 5 lines of python09:38
humphreybci could look into making a python program and use it as my program for the python paper i'm doing this semester09:38
humphreybcbut it probably won't be ready yet09:38
humphreybccould we use glade or quickly to give it a GUI?09:38
dutchieyeah, good idea09:39
humphreybcthe reason i want it automated is that it'll be a battle trying to explain to the masses that what dpi is and what resolution is etc09:39
humphreybcespecially the english-is-not-their-first-language masses09:39
humphreybcand if we're going to get 1200 screenshots they need to be organized09:39
godbykdutchie: after running make, look for a screenshots.log file.09:39
dutchieawesome09:40
humphreybcare we the biggest ubuntu project now?09:40
dutchiedoubt it09:40
humphreybcname some large projects...09:40
humphreybcie in team size09:40
thorwila while ago i thought: there should be a layer between applications and their representation on screen. allowing to store/recall the state of what is being shown. such that you can render the same scene with a different them. or language, even09:41
vishthorwil: oops , stock_properties.svg or there are a lot of other similar alternative in categories09:41
godbykCan't you just set an environment variable (LANG) that gets read and then everything is translated when you run the program?09:41
dutchieLC_MESSAGES should already be set09:42
dutchieI've got a $LANG variable anyway09:42
dutchieLANG=en_GB.UTF-809:42
godbyk$ echo $LANG09:43
godbyken_US.UTF-809:43
godbykI think if I set LANG to something either (and the appropriate language packs are installed) that it should work okay, right?09:43
thorwilvish: if not a wiki page, could you collect all icons you would consider (can be multiple themes), tar.bz2 and send a copy to design team members?09:43
vishk..09:44
humphreybcheh... the smell of progress. I like!09:44
vishthorwil: i'll try to do it to the wiki itself , but not anytime soon , since i have to make changes to humanity for lucid :(09:44
thorwilvish: it's actually not important to have it on the wiki, the important things is each of us who might work with them having the same set09:46
thorwilto either use them as is, adjust them, or as point of reference09:46
godbykCould we have vish just drop a copy into the bzr repository for us to use for now and he can update them later when they've been finalized?09:48
vishthorwil: hmm... "each of us " i think i'm not following something?09:48
thorwilsounds like a good idea09:48
thorwilgodbyk: good idea09:49
godbykoops.. I closed the wrong window.09:49
godbyk(that's what I get for hitting alt+f4 instead of reaching for the mouse.09:49
thorwilvish: godbyk, wolter, maybe kolorguild if he ever comes back, myself09:49
vishthorwil: but what is there for all of us the work on wrt to those 2 or 3 icons?09:50
* vish should stop multitasking when talking to thorwil least might face his wrath ;p09:50
thorwilvish: there's still icons per chapter09:50
humphreybcwell icons per chapter, hmm.. things like the terminal will be easy. default apps, just a combination of a few app logos? prologue icon would be a bit hard... installation could be a computer screen with a screwdriver beside it or something, or maybe that could be for troubleshooting09:52
humphreybcyour imagination is the limit!09:52
godbykprologue could perhaps be the ubuntu logo or something.09:53
thorwilvish: there's also the aspect of you doing the collecting work and letting us know what you have. so it is done. once. and everyone who needs to know about it, does09:53
godbykmaybe the 'icons' for the chapters should be watermarks in the top-right of the page (bleed to the edge)09:53
thorwilwe should try and see if icon-per-chapter is feasible09:54
thorwilif there is something we can't cover with a sane icon, we drop that idea09:54
vishthorwil: hmm, collecting , not anytime this month :(  pretty backed up fixing bugs in humanity :(09:54
thorwilvish: what are you even doing here, if your workload is that high? ;p09:55
humphreybcthorwil: I think we can cover each chapter with an icon09:56
vishthorwil:  hehe ;)  just to bug you ;p09:56
thorwilhumphreybc: maybe not if it comes down to me having to do the title page and icons alone09:56
humphreybctrue09:57
humphreybci'll see if martin has a bit of spare time too09:57
vishthorwil: the issue is the deadlines for humanity and UI freeze are march4 , so it needs higher priority ;)09:57
thorwilvish: sure. you talk too much with that tight deadlines ;)09:58
vish;)09:59
* vish was hoping that manual design work would have been over by early feb09:59
thorwilvish: well, you couldn't know that silly german guy would get involved and make it all blown-out and complicated :)10:01
humphreybchaha10:02
humphreybci'm going to start writing up some specifications for the screenshot taking app10:07
humphreybcideas for names?10:07
humphreybcRapture? Impression?10:10
humphreybcGetshot?10:10
godbykbrb. gonna log out and back in10:10
thorwilhotshot10:12
thorwilscrot10:13
dutchiescrot might be one to avoid10:14
dutchieseeing as it is used to abbreviate "scrotum" in en_GB10:14
humphreybchaha10:16
humphreybcI like impression10:16
humphreybcQuickSnap? Snapper?10:16
humphreybcQuickCapture10:17
humphreybcQuickture10:17
humphreybcQuickshot?10:17
humphreybcI like quickshot10:18
humphreybcnot taken already by another FLOSS project so that's a plus10:18
humphreybcQuikShot10:21
dutchiethat looks positively KDEy with all those Ks and Qs10:23
godbyksweet!  Just got the translation stuff working.10:33
godbykthat may make screenshots a bit easier.10:33
godbykhere's the recipe for those who want to play along at home:10:33
godbyksudo apt-get install language-package-LANG language-pack-gnome-LANG10:33
humphreybcokay it's called "QuickShot"10:33
godbyk(where LANG is the language code: 'es' for spanish, 'de' for german, etc.)10:33
godbykinstall whatever dependencies it wants, too.10:34
humphreybchttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/quickshot10:34
godbyklet's say you picked spanish (es)10:34
godbykthen from a terminal, run "LANG=es_ES.UTF8 gedit"10:34
godbykand gedit will appear with spanish menus, etc.10:34
humphreybcwill QuickShot have to run these commands to install the language packs?10:34
godbykwell, the language you chose during install will be installed already.10:35
humphreybcyeah10:35
godbykif you want to view things in multiple languages, you'll have to install the language packs for those languages10:35
humphreybcokay cool10:35
humphreybcas much as we can we should try to assign screenshotting to the translation teams10:36
humphreybcbecause they'll already have the correct language10:36
godbykthen, you have to set the LANG environment variable (and probably LC_ALL, too) to the language you want to see things in.10:36
godbykright.10:36
godbykthis is more useful if you wanted to take screenshots of multiple languages yourself.10:36
* humphreybc begins drawing up Mark Shuttleworth style UI diagrams with a pencil10:36
vishhumphreybc: where have you seen those ;p , sabdfl doesnt do them ,the pencil diagrams around in Ubuntu are just from mpt10:37
godbykhumphreybc: So what's your QuickShot program going to do?10:37
humphreybchttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/quickshot10:38
humphreybcvish I thought the ones (like the software store and memenu) are from mark?10:38
vishhumphreybc: i knew it!  nope , all those are mpt10:38
humphreybcoh okay!10:38
humphreybcjoey on omgubuntu is wrong10:38
humphreybci need graphics paper :S10:38
vishjoey is pretty wrong on a lot of stuff ;)10:39
humphreybchaha10:40
humphreybcjeez painfully slow download speed11:04
humphreybc10 KB/s11:05
godbykhumphreybc: should've stuck with your old ISP, eh? :-)11:05
humphreybcwell now we have unlimited bandwidth11:05
humphreybcbut it's traffic managed... for browsing websites it's nice and fast11:05
humphreybcspeedtest.net gives us at about 6mpbs11:05
humphreybcbut for some reason downloading stuff takes forever11:06
humphreybci'm downloading the hplip drivers which are 20mb, and it's sooo slow11:06
humphreybci'm going to ring them and complain11:06
godbyknice11:07
godbykwhat does it cost you a month?11:07
humphreybc$105 NZD with a landline11:08
humphreybclandline is like $60 of that11:08
humphreybcthe upload speed is quite good tho, which is nice for my server11:08
godbykSo far we're up to 15 screenshots required.11:09
* humphreybc adds shading to his drawings while waiting for the drivers to download so he can scan it11:09
humphreybcif we can stay under 30 that'll be great11:09
godbykI wouldn't hold my breath.11:09
humphreybceek11:09
humphreybcwe've already got to get 1200 screenshots11:09
humphreybcwhere are all of these going to be hosted?11:09
humphreybci could pester canonical for some server space11:09
dutchiewhy not in the branch?11:10
humphreybcyeah11:10
humphreybcthe branch might end up huge tho11:10
humphreybclike half a gig huge11:10
humphreybcthis is an enormous undertaking11:11
dutchiedid you not think that when we started?11:11
humphreybcat some point i need to talk to mark shuttleworth to see if we can get some extra resources fired our way. I suppose we have to prove ourselves first11:11
humphreybcdutchie: honestly, no way!11:11
dutchieheh11:11
dutchiewhat sort of extra resources?11:11
humphreybci was just going to create a 50 page english manual in open office...11:11
humphreybcdunno whatever they can spare lol11:12
humphreybcmaybe a domain name :P11:12
humphreybc50 page english manual turned into a 200 page latex manual in over 40 languages with dozens of screenshots11:12
humphreybccomplete with it's own aggregated planet and almost 300 members.. sigh. xD11:12
humphreybcand now i'm planning to write the project's first purpose-built application11:13
dutchiedon't forget manualbot!11:13
dutchie!hi11:13
manualbotHi! Welcome to #ubuntu-manual! Enjoy your stay!11:13
humphreybcheheh11:13
* humphreybc is designing a logo for quickshot11:19
humphreybclol11:19
humphreybcanyone seen Ilya recently?11:19
dutchie11:21:11 -!- Irssi: The person with the nick IlyaHaykinson last spoke 14d 13h ago.  11d 13h ago byla na kanale #ubuntu-manual, z ktorego wtedy wyszedlem.11:21
humphreybc14 days ago?11:21
dutchieapparently11:21
humphreybctry IlyaHaykinson_11:21
dutchie11:21:45 -!- Irssi: The person with the nick IlyaHaykinson_ last spoke 14d 15h ago.  14d 3h ago they were seen quitting on the channel #ubuntu-manual with the  message: Quit: nitenite11:22
* dutchie <3 irssi11:22
humphreybcwow11:22
humphreybci thought i'd seen him last week11:22
dutchieit might be broken :)11:22
* dutchie greps logs11:23
vishgodbyk: bzr-explorer , seems good too11:23
vishyou can choose the position of the button labels ;)11:24
godbykvish: Wha-?11:24
dutchieirclogs/2010/02/09/#ubuntu-manual.log:08:51 -!- IlyaHaykinson_ [~ilya@cpe-76-94-53-173.socal.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: nitenite]11:24
dutchiethat's the last I saw of him11:24
humphreybc5 day sago11:24
vishgodbyk: you mentioned you missed the button labels in bzr-gtk... bzr-explorer has those11:25
* humphreybc has drawn up five windows, a logo and a quickshot title logo complete with shading and my 20mb download still hasn't finished11:26
godbykvish: Ah. Gotcha.  It wasn't labels I missed, but unique icons and tooltips.11:27
vishgodbyk: bzr-explorer well, it has those too i guess ;)11:28
humphreybcit'd probably be so much quicker to take a photograph with my DSLR of the piece of paper than scanning it in....11:30
godbykI mean, if you're going to use the exact same icon on the toolbar multiple times, you should *at least* give me some tooltips so I can figure out what each one is for.11:30
godbykhumphreybc: Probably!11:30
humphreybcmaybe i should just do that haha11:30
humphreybcand scanning works11:43
humphreybctook photos but the flash reflected off the page too much11:43
godbykhumphreybc: I wanna see! :-)11:45
humphreybcgetting there!11:46
humphreybcjust going to crop them into individual windows11:46
godbykI want to go to bed, but I'm helping someone in another channel troubleshoot some software that I haven't used in quite a while.  It's being a pain.11:46
humphreybchaha, and you have to wait like 10 minutes till i resize and upload these11:49
humphreybcthey're cool xD11:49
godbyklol11:51
godbykI just pointed this guy to some troubleshooting stuff on the project's web site and the mailing list address.11:51
* godbyk yawns11:51
godbykI think I'm gonna head to bed.11:52
godbykhumphreybc: You should email me your sketches when you get 'em done.  I'll poke at them for ya. :)11:52
humphreybcheh11:52
humphreybci'm putting them on the quickshot page now11:52
humphreybcgodbyk: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/quickshot11:57
godbykhumphreybc: cool11:58
humphreybcwhat do you think of the sketches? hehe11:58
godbykhumphreybc: Shouldn't the app check the server first and only offer options that are available?11:58
dutchienot sure about that icon11:58
godbyk(so I don't select one, fail, select another, fail, repeat fail)11:58
dutchiebut too much going on for something about 20 pixels wide11:58
dutchiebit*11:58
humphreybcgodbyk: yeah it probably should11:58
humphreybcbut then we'll end up with a waiting time while it downloads the information, and then a huge window to display hundreds of possibilities11:59
humphreybcso i suppose theirs a trade off11:59
godbykThe window/area/desktop option could be preset from the server, too.  (so they're consistent across languages)11:59
humphreybcthe way it is now is good for the start of the project11:59
humphreybcbut when 1195 shots are done, the last 5 will be very hard to find lol12:00
humphreybci wonder if we can have it change the theme to default, set the language, and change resolutions too?12:00
humphreybcso for a few seconds the user will see some crazy shit12:00
humphreybcand all the dialogs have to be in english or their own language so they can understand them12:00
godbykright12:00
humphreybcso somehow they can't be changed when the system language is changed12:00
thorwilhumphreybc: labels in dialogs should be short and to the point. ideally front-loaded. so better no "Please choose"12:01
humphreybctrue12:01
godbykhumphreybc: you'd set the LANG and LC_ALL vars to whatever language they're taking the screenshot for and then run the program.  it'll inherit those vars, but the rest of the system is using the system-wide language settings.12:02
humphreybcrighto12:02
godbykI don't think pulling down a data set from the web on startup would be that bad.12:03
godbykit won't be that big.12:03
godbyknumber of languages * number of screenshots - # screenshots already taken12:03
godbykit'll get faster each time. :-)12:03
thorwiltreating it as sentence: "Take a screenshot of: [24 - MeMenu closeup] in the language: [Portuguese]", perhaps12:03
humphreybcokay cool12:04
godbykand the language should default to the current system language.12:04
humphreybci'm going to add a "comments" section to the bottom of the wiki if you guys could add your comments there :)12:04
humphreybc(otherwise i'll forget)12:05
godbykthat's what irc logs are for. :)12:05
thorwilok, my sentecne should be turned around, to be able to mark shots already taken in a language, anyway12:06
thorwilgodbyk: irc logs are full of noise. like this right here :)12:06
humphreybcexackery12:07
humphreybcdutchie you're right about the logo12:12
humphreybcit'll probably be simpler when done on a computer12:12
humphreybcwithout the detail of pencil shadings and finer, straighter lines etc12:12
godbykhumphreybc: Okay, I added a paragraph in the comments section.12:13
godbykBut I'm really tired, so it may be nonsensical.  I'll reread it when I wake up and elaborate or fix things.12:13
humphreybccool12:14
godbykOkay, I'm headed to bed now.12:14
godbykI'll be back in 8-9 hours or thereabouts.12:14
humphreybcdutchie: does the planet have a cronjob to update?12:15
humphreybcgodbyk: awesome, night12:15
dutchieyes, for the millionth time12:15
godbykYou should add more people to the planet.12:15
* godbyk is going to bed for reals this time!12:16
dutchiegive me more people to add :)12:16
humphreybcwell i've emailed the ML at least once asking for people12:25
humphreybcjosh, feel free to add some comments to the quickshot wiki too12:28
humphreybci'll look at them in the morning and make some changes12:28
komsasI'm looking to future, but how to render manual with translated strings?12:39
humphreybcyou mean the title paeg?12:42
humphreybcpage*12:42
komsasall pages12:42
humphreybcthat's all being taken care of with latex12:43
humphreybcyou should have a look at the branch some time12:43
humphreybcwe can output to any language at the moment12:43
humphreybcmore or less12:44
humphreybcthe only thing that has to be manually translated each time is the title page12:44
komsasok, I will look to branch and hope to find how to do this ;) thanks12:44
humphreybcyep what happens is that we write the english version in tex files12:45
humphreybcand they get compiled into a pdf12:45
humphreybcbut anyway, there's another program called po4a that takes the strings from the text files and exports them into .pot and .po files12:45
humphreybcthese get imported into rosetta (launchpad) where you guys translate them12:45
komsasLike I :)12:45
humphreybcthen they get exported out of launchpad, and put back into the branch12:46
humphreybcthen what happens is that we can run a slightly different command to compile the manual in any of the languages12:46
humphreybcand latex just takes the different strings from the .pot and .po files and puts them in the place of the english ones12:46
humphreybcit's slightly more complicated than that, but that's pretty much the idea12:46
komsascan I find any doc about command how to compile?12:46
komsasor where is that script?12:47
humphreybcyep, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Help12:47
humphreybcand to compile in your own language, however, is a wee bit more involved. We haven't documentated that on the wiki yet but if you ask godbyk when he's around he can tell you how to do it12:47
humphreybcI presume you want to compile the PDF in lithuanian?12:48
humphreybcto see what it looks like?12:48
komsasyes12:48
humphreybcokay well godbyk has just gone to sleep, he'll be back in about 8 hours12:48
humphreybcbut dutchie might know how to do it12:48
humphreybche's just having lunch, should be back in 20 minutes12:48
komsasok I will ask dutchie about this.12:49
humphreybcwait i think i found out how to do it12:50
komsasmmm..12:50
humphreybcmaybe12:50
humphreybcnope12:50
humphreybchaha12:50
komsashehe12:50
komsasI will look too..12:50
humphreybctry running "make ubuntu-manual-li.pdf"12:51
komsas"li" like lithuanian?12:51
humphreybcyep12:52
humphreybcit's the language code for lithuanian12:52
humphreybcyou have to run it in the root directory of the branch though12:52
komsasnop, ours is lt12:52
humphreybchave you pulled the branch?12:52
humphreybcoh okay12:52
komsasyes12:52
humphreybcsorry lt then12:52
humphreybcso you can do make show to just see the english version12:52
humphreybcalso have a look here: http://kevin.godby.org/private/ubuntu-manual/12:52
humphreybcgodbyk put some of the translated versions on his server, but that was about 2 weeks ago12:53
humphreybcI don't think lithuanian is htere12:53
humphreybcbut there are some similar to lithuanian that you can look at to get an idea before he tells you how to compile the actual lt version12:53
humphreybcthose aren't particularly useful12:54
komsasdo you know where to get package xelatex?12:56
humphreybcohhhhhh that's right12:58
humphreybci remember now12:58
humphreybcnope i'm not sure12:58
komsasI found texlive-xetex :)12:58
humphreybche had to use a newer version of latex because of all the special chinese characters and such12:58
humphreybcit's like the 2007 version of it that isn't in the repos yet12:58
komsasyee.. it is old.13:00
humphreybcyup13:01
humphreybcdarn translations, so complicated :P13:01
komsassomeone must write all dependences for compiling and create ppa for them.13:02
komsasthen will be more easy for us (translators)13:03
humphreybcfor the translations?13:03
humphreybcyea13:03
humphreybca PPA is a good idea13:03
humphreybcalthough I think xelatex is a pretty large package13:03
humphreybcno probs13:33
humphreybcwait13:33
humphreybcwrong window13:33
humphreybcright i think i need sleep13:35
humphreybcit's 2:30am here now13:35
humphreybctalk to you guys tomorrow13:35
dutchiekomsas: godbyk had a list of requirements for building a translated version13:37
komsasdutchie: ok, I will ask him13:38
dutchieI might be able to find them13:38
dutchietry running "make ubuntu-manual-lt.pdf" (assuming you want the lithuanian version)13:39
humphreybcdutchie: we tried that13:39
humphreybcremember godbyk said something about requiring 2007 edition of xelatex13:39
humphreybcand that it wasn't available in the repos13:39
humphreybcand stuff13:39
komsasyes, I need newer version of xelatex13:40
dutchieaha, found it13:43
dutchiehttps://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/msg00548.html13:44
komsasnice, thanks dutchie13:45
dutchiePendulum: haven't seen you around here before :)17:07
Pendulumdutchie: I mostly joined to see if Ben was around to talk about the training days in -classroom17:08
PendulumI looked at the project when it first started and then realised I didn't have time to get involved ;)17:08
Pendulumbut as I am involved in Classroom we want to make sure everything gets organized and scheduled appropriately :)17:09
dutchiehe did ask me to help arrange that17:10
Pendulumah, okay17:10
dutchieI could probably be of assistance as he's asleep now17:10
PendulumI just sent him an e-mail with a heads up as there's already a class scheduled at 1800 UTC on the 23rd17:10
Pendulumso we need y'all to leave that hour free17:11
Pendulumdo you want to take this to #ubuntu-classroom-backstage?17:11
dutchiewe've got a timetable under construction in an etherpad17:11
dutchiehmm, chrome seems to have decided not to work17:11
Pendulumthat's not useful of it :P17:11
dutchieOK, working now17:12
dutchiehttp://etherpad.com/ov6YwNDcDi is what we have so far17:12
dutchieI think here is fine, unless you want it in #ubuntu-classroom-backstage17:13
dutchiePendulum: does that timetable look good?17:15
dutchieright, have to walk the dog before it gets dark, but will be back soon17:16
Pendulumdutchie: it looks pretty similar to what we've seen already and so far looks fine to me17:32
dutchiePendulum: great. I think Ben is keen to be able to use Lernid for this. Do you know where the .lernid file should go to have Lernid autodetect it?17:50
Pendulumdutchie: that I don't know. I think for User Days those dealing with lernid e-mailed someone17:53
Pendulumnhandler may know17:53
dutchieOK, thanks17:53
dutchieI might just look through the source :)17:53
Pendulumdutchie: nhandler things the .lernid files still may need to go to jono to be autodetected18:43
dutchieOK, thanks18:44
dutchieI'll grab jono if he's ever around18:44
Pendulumor maybe qense since I know jono handed lernid off to him18:44
dutchieI'll ask jono, as it's probably more a case of someone having upload rights to the webspace18:44
Pendulum*nods*18:45
dutchieconfigfile = urllib.urlopen('http://www.jonobacon.org/files/lernid/ubuntu.lernid')18:46
dutchieI'll ask jono :)18:46
dutchiethough in the meantime, a hungry dog has appeared18:47
Pendulum:)18:48
Pendulumisn't that redundent?18:48
PendulumI thought all dogs were hungry all the time18:48
dutchiewell, an especially hungry dog then18:48
dutchienow a dribbly dog has come to thank me for food18:49
nozeslegal19:27
dutchienozes: can we help?19:28
nozesno, I am speak english ;(19:30
dutchieok... I think ;)19:30
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ubuntujenkinsI am trying to explain the click and drag process used in drop and red-eye reduction in f-spot does this make sense? http://paste.ubuntu.com/376416/20:27
ubuntujenkins*crop20:27
dutchiemaybe "of the subject's eye" instead of just "of the red-eye"20:28
dutchieotherwise pretty clear I think20:28
ubuntujenkinsthanks dutchie how do I get added to the authors? can i just add my self in the tex file?20:29
dutchiehave you joined the team?20:29
ubuntujenkinsyes I have done empathy and am on f-spot and totem20:30
dutchieYeah, just put yourself in somewhere with the others then20:30
ubuntujenkinscool didn't want to just add it just incase thanks!20:30
godbykDid komsas get pointed in the right direction for compiling the manual in Lithuanian?22:58
dutchiegodbyk: yeah, I gave him a link to your original ML post22:59
godbykdutchie: Cool. Thanks.23:00
godbykHopefully those instructions aren't too hard to follow.23:00
dutchiewell, he hasn't come back and asked for more help, so I assume so23:00
godbykThe biggest drawback is that downloading TeX Live can take a while -- it's huge!23:00
dutchieindeed23:01
godbykThe glossaries stuff in the Ubuntu repositories is also woefully out of date.  At some point, I may have to have everyone using TL2009 for things (and stop making English a special case).23:02
dutchieprobably a good idea23:03
dutchiehmm, I wonder what version TL is in lucid23:03
dutchie2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu1 :(23:03
dutchieit's in testing and unstable though23:04
dutchietempted to request a sync23:04
godbykIt's almost better to use the real TeX Live stuff 'cause it has its own updater (to get updated packages).23:06
godbykSeems Debian/Ubuntu never post updates for anything.23:06
dutchiewell, debian have got 2009 in23:06
dutchieI think you just have to complain at them to make anything happen23:07
godbykI see.23:08
godbykhttp://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html23:08
dutchieI think getting texlive synced for lucid will involve pain23:09
* dutchie decides to put a tentative question out in #ubuntu-devel23:10
dutchie23:13:47 < geser> dutchie: lucid will have TeXLive 200923:14
godbykdutchie: yay!23:17
dutchieit doesn't yet though23:17
godbykfigures.23:17

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