/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/08/16/#ubuntu-manual.txt

sonicbadgerI am going to call it a night now. I have to go to bed now. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. My boss is back from holiday and that means he has spent way to much time thinking about things that he wants to change. So he will spend the first few hours of tomorrow having a strop at everybody.00:03
godbykFun!00:05
godbykThanks for your help, sonicbadger.00:05
sonicbadgernp00:05
sonicbadgerI do have some fun planned for tomorrow at work.00:05
sonicbadgerAnother guy is also back from holiday. I have rigged a device that will flick tiny bits of paper at him when he gets in and moves his mouse. :)00:06
godbyklol00:07
godbykawesome.00:07
sonicbadgerHopefully I can get it on video00:08
godbykI'll be working on the manual this evening. Then I have to spend a bit of time on some C++ code for work.00:08
godbykYou'll have to share it if you do. :)00:08
sonicbadgerNp00:08
nisshhhumphreybc: hey, hows the company thing coming along?00:52
humphreybclol00:52
humphreybcnot bad00:52
nisshhwhat?00:52
nisshhdid i say something?00:52
godbykHey. humphreybc.. don't forget to fix that Ubuntu manual bug that's assigned to you before tomorrow. :)00:53
humphreybcno?00:53
humphreybcgodbyk, yeah, that's what I was going to come in here for00:53
godbykcool00:53
nisshhhumphreybc: why did you laugh? :)00:53
humphreybc"the company thing"00:55
humphreybcmade me chuckle00:55
nisshhoh lol00:55
nisshhhumphreybc: should i have said "the super duper awesome never before seen company"?00:55
humphreybchaha no "the company thing" sums it up nicely00:56
humphreybcgodbyk: give me a list of the folders from / down that people should know about00:57
nisshhhehe00:57
godbykhumphreybc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard00:58
godbykhumphreybc: Though this page appears a bit more concise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure00:59
godbykI'd say the ones that end users care about most are probably:01:00
godbykoh, and /media since that's where their usb keys and whatnot get mounted nowadays.01:01
godbyk /home, /etc /var/log and /usr/bin and /usr/lib01:01
godbyk(forgot the space, so irc hated me. oops)01:01
humphreybcok01:03
humphreybchow big does this diagram have to be?01:05
godbykno clue01:06
humphreybclol01:06
humphreybcso is /var and /log separate?01:07
humphreybcare end users really going to care about these?01:07
godbyklog is a subdir of /var01:07
brandonjhumphreybc: there is no /log01:07
godbykand end users would only care if they need to find the log files for reporting errors, etc.01:07
humphreybcok01:11
OmegaYo humphreybc.01:14
OmegaDid you hear about Ubuntu Tour?01:14
humphreybc?01:15
Omega http://openetherpad.org/GUNcK2dx75 https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour01:15
OmegaIt01:15
OmegaIt's a project we started yesterday (today)01:16
humphreybcwhat do we think about this? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1887929/filesystem.png01:23
MuscovyThat's a good chart.01:25
MuscovyI like how it emphasize the home dir.01:25
godbykhumphreybc: not too bad.  Music, Photos, and Videos should be capitalized, though, right?01:25
* humphreybc sighs :P01:25
MuscovyI'd maybe include /bin and /media.01:25
godbykAlso, the letterspacing on the type is too tight.01:25
humphreybcyeah01:25
humphreybcI need to fix the kerning01:25
godbykMuscovy: only system binaries are in /bin.01:26
godbykhumphreybc: Is it a vector graphic?01:26
godbykhumphreybc: Oh, and you should probably have a root / node at the top.01:26
brandonj+1 to root node and /media01:26
humphreybcokay, two secs01:27
godbykhumphreybc: The width of the text block (including margin note area) is 480 pt.01:29
humphreybcoh01:29
humphreybcmy thing is twice that01:29
humphreybcnvm, i'll work something out01:30
godbykSo whatever you give me will be scaled to fit that width.01:30
godbykit's okay if it's bigger, it'll get scaled automatically.01:30
godbykI just wanted to let you know so you'd have an idea of what scale it'd be at.01:30
godbyk(the width is slightly different for A4 paper anyway)01:30
godbykspeaking of, will we have to have new graphics for each translation?  (Is Music, Photos, etc. translated?)01:31
humphreybcyeah...01:31
humphreybcunfortunately01:31
brandonjthats a pain01:32
humphreybcrefresh that link01:35
humphreybcgood?01:36
humphreybcnow I just need to scale it01:36
brandonji like it01:37
godbykfor the subdirs of /usr and /var, you list the /usr and /var parent dirs. but you don't do that for the other subdirs.01:37
OmegaI was just about to mention that.01:38
humphreybcrefresh01:38
humphreybcit doesn't look very good scaled down to < 480 pts wide01:39
OmegaFor the subdirs of /, you list the / parent folders for all but home.01:41
Omegafolder*01:41
humphreybcfixed01:42
OmegaI think under user, a better fit would be Documents, Downloads, Music.01:42
OmegaFor the variety01:42
godbykI'm building the PDF with your image. We'll see how it looks.01:42
OmegaSo the user doesn't assume it's only for multimedia.01:43
humphreybcfair point01:43
godbykuploading01:45
godbykit'll be on page 12101:45
humphreybcrighto01:45
humphreybci think the fonts are going to take the hardest hit01:45
godbykuploaded to http://builds.ubuntu-manual.org/builds/main.pdf01:46
godbykbrb. gonna grab my other mouse. this one's batteries died.01:46
humphreybcactually it looks fine01:48
godbykback01:48
brandonjyeah I dont think it looks bad01:48
humphreybcwe'll need to change the text underneath to reflect the new diagram01:48
OmegaAre there any plans for an online version of the guide?01:48
godbykhumphreybc: what app did you use to create this?01:48
humphreybcgodbyk I give you one guess01:48
godbykcan we get a vector version? (say, svg or pdf?)01:48
humphreybcugh I suppose I could re-do it in illustrator01:49
humphreybcis it really, really, really important?01:49
godbykwell, it looks all pixelated and blech.  and it may not print well.01:49
humphreybcI think it looks okay01:50
humphreybcI can resize it in photoshop first, might have better resizing01:50
humphreybc(especially for fonts)01:50
godbykAre you thorwil? ;-)01:50
humphreybcI have shit to do today and a lab report due on thursday!01:50
godbykWho waited 'til the last minute to create a new diagram?  <grin>01:51
humphreybcnew and imporved smaller version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1887929/filesystem.png01:51
humphreybcmaybe I'll get around to making it better for Maverick01:51
humphreybc(read: in illustrator)01:52
humphreybcgodbyk: why does our monospace font look so terrible?01:52
godbykhumphreybc: What's terrible about it?01:53
humphreybceverything01:53
godbykrebuilding pdf with smaller version.01:54
humphreybcgodbyk, do you think you have time to fix the text underneath the diagram?01:54
godbykhumphreybc: Ha. Well, you'll have to be more specific, I guess.  We're using DejaVu Sans Mono.01:54
humphreybcThe spacing between verticals in 'm' and 'n' is horrible01:54
humphreybcin general, it's just horrible01:55
humphreybcsurely we have some other monospace we can try ;)01:55
godbykhumphreybc: Find me one with good language support and I'll give it a shot.01:56
humphreybcbastard :P01:56
godbykIt's really hard to find good monospaced fonts.01:57
humphreybcthat's disappointing :(01:57
godbykuploading new pdf.01:59
humphreybcgodbyk: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/pongo-records-screen-activity-audio.html02:00
godbykupload finished. same url.02:01
godbykhumphreybc: cool. 'bout time. :)02:01
humphreybcstupid windows02:03
humphreybcevery time i try to open the file, it says adobe reader can't view it in the browser and will now close02:03
humphreybcbut i can't download the file02:03
humphreybcokay, just went back to /builds and downloaded it from there02:04
humphreybcgodbyk is it just me, or does that look worse than before?02:05
godbykI think it looks fuzzier than before, yeah.02:06
humphreybcuse the larger one then02:06
godbykyou have to upload the big one again.02:06
humphreybcalready done02:06
godbyk'kay.02:07
godbykrebuilding.02:07
OmegaMaybe we should use the new Ubuntu font.02:09
humphreybcdoesn't have a serif version02:10
godbykOmega: When it's been released we quite possibly will use it for the headings.02:11
godbykIt doesn't work well for the margin notes, unfortunately.02:11
OmegaWell, night guys.02:12
OmegaSchool life begins!02:12
humphreybcthese guys are so unruly: http://www.myspace.com/localnatives02:17
humphreybcscroll down to see crazy zombie heads02:17
godbykSee ya, Omega!02:20
godbykhumphreybc: that pretty much reaffirms why I don't click on myspace pages. UGLY!02:21
humphreybchaha02:21
humphreybcgreat band though02:22
trijntjeping godbyk09:05
godbyktrijntje: pong09:06
trijntjehi, I saw you mailed hannie about some issues with the manual, but she forgot to forward that mail to the dutch team before she went on vacation. Can you tell me an update about the translation problems with LP?09:07
trijntje*give me an update09:07
godbyktrijntje: I'm not sure what specific problems you have in mind.09:08
trijntjegodbyk, translations reverting back to suggestions09:09
godbyktrijntje: But at the moment, you should be focusing on translating the lucid-e1 branch.  (Though if you like you can switch to the lucid-e2 branch in a few days after we've released it.)09:09
godbykAh, right. Not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.09:09
godbykI don't know why that happens.09:09
trijntjethat also happens in e1, thats the problem09:10
godbykI know.09:11
godbykA few things I do know:09:11
godbyk1. If the translation template file (.pot file) is updated, then it can screw up existing translations if Launchpad thinks the original English text has been changed.09:11
godbykThis shouldn't happen in e1 as it's under a writing freeze.  But since people have changed the translation settings a couple of times, Launchpad has reloaded the .pot file and this may have caused problems.09:12
godbyk2. Launchpad will pull translations from e1 to e2 and vice versa if the strings match.09:12
godbykSo if you translate a paragraph in e2 and the same paragraph appears in e1, Launchpad will show the e2 translation as a suggestion in the e1 branch.09:13
trijntjethats a good thing09:13
trijntjeso I should try to review some more, download the .po just in case and see if it reverts again?09:14
godbyk3. There's a Launchpad bug with the translations where an empty string in the .po file (translation file) can cause existing translations to be marked as suggestions. The Launchpad developers know about it, but haven't had time to fix it yet.09:14
dpmThat's message sharing. It will actually translate the message in e109:14
godbyktrijntje: Sounds like a plan.09:14
godbyktrijntje: Do you translate using Launchpad? Or do you edit the .po file itself?09:14
trijntjegodbyk, using launchpad, as we have many new team members that submit suggestions09:15
godbyktrijntje: Okay. I think most of our translators are using Launchpad.09:15
trijntjegodbyk, ok, ill try it today or tomorrow and I will be back here if something goes wrong09:18
godbyktrijntje: Sure. Let me know if you run into problems.  If you do, we'll make a careful list of steps to repeat the bug so we can report it to the Launchpad developers.09:19
trijntjegodbyk, will do, thanks for your time09:20
godbykno problem09:23
jcisiohello09:27
jcisiowe Vietnamese has arrived at 100% milestone, could someone pull the LP to bazaar and compile to check it?09:28
jcisio:)09:28
jcisionext step, we hope that there are a lot of users volunteering for the proofreading and release it soon09:29
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jenkinsthorwil: what do you think of http://www.flickr.com/photos/muscovyx/4886602265/ suggested by muscovy18:51
jenkinsflan ping18:51
jenkinsI think the lense needs some adjusting and the colours changed to less ubuntu ones but its a good idea18:51
flan_Hi.18:52
flan_I noticed that you cleared out the idle applicant list.18:52
flan_Internet isntallations's cheduled for Saturday.18:53
thorwiljenkins: there is no lense, unless you really _want_ to see one. no hint that it's about more than just a screenshot (and not much of a hint that it is about screenshots at all)18:53
flan_I like the way it looks, but I have no clue what it represents.18:54
flan_I'd gladly affix it to a car or get it put onto a shirt.18:54
jenkinswell I had a chat in #ubuntu-uk and asked people to guess what the program was from the icons we had so far. The feed back was it took to long to guess and a picture of a desktop was suggested by popey as it was more screenshot like to him18:55
jenkinsI did come up with http://imagebin.org/109820 and this one http://imagebin.org/109830 basied on pope-ys idea18:56
flan_What about a side-view of an old-style CRT and a camera pointing at it?18:56
jenkinsI also did something else which i can't find18:57
thorwilah, that's what you meant with 45 degrees rotation18:57
jenkinsyep :)18:58
thorwilhttp://imagebin.org/109830 could be monitor-controls or appearance18:58
jenkinsyea thats what i thought but i went with the idea as it was suggested18:59
thorwilworse than not making sense is looking like something else, as you can bet there will be such a just-a-monitor icon around18:59
thorwilflan_: got any feedback on http://www.foopics.com/showfull/97ddf1478522eee7212bca5f6963789e ?19:00
flan_The last one on the second row seems to imply "this does something with parts of your screen".19:02
flan_And it's visually pleasing.19:02
jenkinsthorwil: it was 3-4 guesses before anyone got screenshots when I asked :( in #ubuntu-uk but muscovy said he liked the far rigth ones and those are my prefered from them19:02
jenkinsI am not sure on the colours but I have no better suggestions.19:05
flan_I'm totally going to get a mousepad with jenkins' first-linked image on it.19:06
thorwilthe colors are very much secondary19:06
jenkinsyep i figured :)19:07
jenkinsflan_: I am getting there with the debian rules file rewrite19:09
flan_I am waiting for an Internet.19:09
flan_:(19:09
flan_It's very hard to write code with a still-not-fully-familiar framework and no access to APIs or supporting documentation.19:10
jenkins:( i sent half the weekend pinging you untill i remembered :D19:10
flan_Yeah... irssi was pretty "YOU HAVE LOTS OF NEW MESSAGES!" when I go in today.19:10
flan_But I disabled logging, so I couldn't read them.19:11
jenkinsno worries it,19:11
thorwiljenkins, flan_, vish: http://www.foopics.com/showfull/4a0a3d709163b46dd879aee55ddd5f1b20:58
jenkinsthorwil: that does make more sense now. at 100% in a browser is that the right size for an icon?20:59
jenkinsI think 69% looks about icon size to me21:01
jenkinsI like it lots better than the original mock up :) and is the best so far21:02
thorwiljenkins: 48px21:02
thorwiljenkins: good. i'd like to know if we have a winner here, before i bother with other sizes, though :)21:04
jenkinsyea i don't blame you :)21:04
jenkinsI think it would be best to make each desktop a different colour / distro. but that is also immaterial until we decide, flan_ ....21:05
thorwilthen the next guy will complain about it being to colorful ;)21:07
thorwilgood night!21:07
jenkinsnight all21:51
MuscovyGnight.21:51
godbykHey, daker.  How will creating an available_manuals2 array do anything?  I do see anywhere in the code that looks for such an array.22:17
dutchieis it out yet?22:17
godbykNope, not yet.22:18
godbykI was just planning a head a bit.22:18
godbykI'll release it in a few hours.22:18
dakeravailable_manuals2 is downloads.php & ajax_manuals.php22:19
dakerin*22:20
godbykI don't see it there yet.  Should it be there already? Or will you upload those changes after I've released the manual?22:21
MuscovyI'm excited for e2. :D22:23
* daker is confused22:25
dakergodbyk, i'll do the changes oki ?22:26
godbykdaker: Okay. Thanks!22:26
godbykChrisWoollard: Think we're ready for the e2 release?23:31
dutchieyou have half an hour to release it on time in en_GB23:33
dutchie:P23:33
OmegaAre you really a dutchie?23:40
OmegaOr is it all leugens?23:40
dutchieit's all a joke23:41
dutchiesince my name is Josh Holland23:41
daker\o/23:41
godbykhttp://builds.ubuntu-manual.org/builds/screen.pdf and http://builds.ubuntu-manual.org/builds/print.pdf23:44
godbykIf anyone sees any bugs, this is your last chance to report 'em and fix 'em. :-)23:45
MuscovyWill do.23:45
MuscovyETA a few hours still>23:45
Muscovy?23:45
godbykMuscovy: Whenever I get tired of sitting around and waiting.  :)23:45
ChrisWoollardfound a bug23:50
godbykChrisWoollard: do tell23:50
ChrisWoollardmy instead of by23:50
godbykwhere?23:51
ChrisWoollardfixed already :)23:52
godbykokay23:52

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