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littlegirlHey there, I don't have the power to edit the http://www.ubuntu.com/news/Official_Ubuntu_Book page, and the link to the Official Ubuntu Book is wrong. Is there someone with editing power who can change it to http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132748509      ?00:06
littlegirlWhoops, wrong channel - sorry!00:07
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fregllol, can one crash the kubuntu 12.04 installer by putting spaces in the hostname?12:07
Riddellfregl: hmm possible12:10
jtechidnaiirc harald fixed that one12:48
jtechidnathough after 12.0412:48
debfxI hope that's SRUed12:55
debfxapachelogger: ^12:56
freglit seems to crash on the current installer image, but then again, only silly colleagues would accidentally do this kind of thing :D12:56
BluesKaj'morning all12:59
apacheloggerdebfx: ?13:18
apacheloggerah13:18
apacheloggerdebfx, jtechidna: cjwatson is taking care of SRUing13:19
ScottKRiddell: How is this new printer thing better than the one we have?13:25
apacheloggerScottK: it does not crash for pointless reasons :P13:26
apacheloggeralso it is maintained :P13:26
apacheloggeralso it looks nice :P13:26
ScottKapachelogger: I can't recall last time it crashed for me (and I fixed a number of crashers for 12.04).13:26
ScottKThe backend bits of the current one are well maintained since we benefit from all the work Til is doing on the common parts.13:27
ScottKI'm a bit worried that if we go off on our own, even though we'll have a maintained GUI, all the tricky printery bits will get less maintained.13:27
apacheloggerwho maintains the gui?13:27
ScottKFor the new one I guess danti.13:28
ScottKFor the old one, I'd been planning on doing the Python 3 port when the backend gets ported to Python 3.13:29
ScottKThe problems we've had relate a lot more to backend stuff than GUI failures.13:29
jtechidnaFor one, the python printer applet uses 22 MB of RAM to show a tray icon.13:33
jtechidnaadding the equivalent print-manager plasmoid to the tray only increases plasma's mem usage by ~1 MB13:39
ScottKjtechidna: Each of my bazillion akonadi processes takes at least the 22MB.13:45
ScottKI agree it's a difference, but is it important?13:45
jtechidnathere's also the improved UI13:50
debfxwhich new printer thing are you talking about?13:51
jtechidnaprint-manager. jr sent a mail to k-d about it13:51
debfxaha13:54
debfxdoes it have any external dependencies?13:56
Riddelldebfx: only libcups13:57
* debfx sees some org.fedoraproject and com.redhat dbus stuff in there13:57
RiddellScottK: it's shinyer and probably it, but I some parts of the UI I'm unconvinced about and it doesn't recommend a print driver13:58
Riddellbut it probably doesn't have any random parts of broken gtk use that I failed to get round to porting in it13:58
debfxRiddell: so what implements org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing?13:59
Riddellgood point, there is some system-config-printer-common dependency14:00
debfxmaybe it doesn't recommend a driver because nothing provides that dbus interface?14:00
debfxthere is a GetBestDrivers call14:00
debfxah indeed that's s-c-p-c14:02
Riddellneither print-manager nor s-c-p-k set up my printer when I plug it in, some issue in the backend I guess14:06
debfxnice, that dbus service needs gtk14:06
debfxand one of the modules it needs is in system-config-printer-gnome14:07
apacheloggerRiddell: FWIW, driver recommendation is bogusy IMHO14:08
apacheloggerwith plug'n'print you should get the right driver 99% of the time14:08
apacheloggerin cases were pnp does not work you likely do not have a driver altogether14:08
apacheloggerthat's what I have been told anyway14:08
debfxso system-config-printer needs some packaging changes for print-manager to work14:10
Riddelldebfx: what needs changed?14:12
debfxRiddell: all python modules that scp-dbus-service.py requires need to be moved out of -gnome14:13
apacheloggerRiddell: print'n'plug is in CUPS btw (IIRC)14:36
apacheloggernot frontend related at any rate14:36
apacheloggerall ktp 0.4 should be built soonishy in staging, will do public call for testing tomorrow14:38
apacheloggerclaydoh: SteveRiley: how about having a forum where people can share ktp experiences?14:40
apacheloggerjust random thinking :)14:40
ScottKFor me, every printer I've got (they are on the network) they are automatically discovered and I just click through accepting the recommendations.14:44
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littlegirlHey there, is the official IRC network for Kubuntu irc.freenode.net or irc.ubuntu.com?15:31
Riddellit's the same thing15:34
Riddellbut generally we'd point to irc.ubuntu.com15:34
littlegirlOkay, then I'll change the references to irc.freenode.net. (:15:35
jjesselittlegirl,  is that a entity?15:35
littlegirlIt will be. (:15:35
littlegirlIt will end up being more than one. irc.ubuntu.com will be an entity and then the separate channels will be entities, as needed.15:36
littlegirlI figure the more things I turn into entities, the easier it will be for anyone else later to change something. (:15:36
littlegirlWe have until October to get this stuff done, right?15:37
jjesseyes15:37
jjessestring freeze or doc freeze don't remember what it is called15:37
littlegirlGood, because this is a slow process with small changes that affect other changes. (:15:37
jjesselittlegirl, i should have time starting in august to get started15:38
jjessesorry i've been un responsive :)15:38
littlegirlGreat!15:38
littlegirlYou've been very helpful. (:15:38
littlegirlListen, while I've got your ear, I found a link to copyright.html in the legal.xml file, and that file does not exist (it's a dead link in the existing KHelpCenter, too). Is that something that I need to write and put into the kubuntu-docs, or is that created and handled by someone else?15:39
littlegirlIt's a link to help:/kubuntu/copyright.html in the legalnotice.xml file.15:40
jjessei thought there was a copyright file15:41
jjesseit should reference something like Copyright Ubuntu Documentaion Team or something15:41
jjessesee if ubuntu-docs has it still?15:41
jjesselittlegirl, not familiar enough w/ the new ubuntu-docs and mallard so not sure where the copyright file is in the current branch15:44
littlegirlI did "locate copyright.html" and only turned up two files, both of which are for DocBook, the software.15:44
jjesseyeah not quite sure15:45
jjesse but i think there needs to be a copyright doc but don't know for sure15:45
littlegirlIt15:45
jjessemight want to ping Daskreech or ubuntu-doc list15:45
littlegirlIt's trying to reference the Creative Commons license, which is in ccbysa.xml, but I don't know how to link that, because it's not on the docs subdirectory, and it gets called inside of each file, so the ../../ structure could wreck the links depending on which file calls it. (:15:46
littlegirlOkay, I'll try both. (:15:46
littlegirlHey there, Daskreech, can I bend your ear about a copyright.html file?15:46
littlegirljjesse: I'm also not sure how to handle these help:/kubuntu/_____ links in which _____ is replaced by a topic. Each of them points to an HTML file, none of which is maintained inside of the kubuntu-docs subdirectory, so their content is beyond my control and may or may not be up-to-date (and as seen in the case of the copyright one, missing entirely).15:49
jjessei would have to look into that15:49
jjessecan you send me a direct email15:49
littlegirlWill do. (:15:49
jjessei know you've been updating the blueprint but those get filtered15:49
littlegirlI also put a few of the things that need to get done into the TODO file in the main kubuntu-docs directory. That way if anyone were to download and go offline, there would still be a list of work to do. (:15:50
littlegirlI could slam it all into the TODO file if that would be better. I think the blueprint is just a politeness thing to let others know what needs to be done and who's working on it. (:15:51
jjessewell i guess we can figure out our own workflow right :)15:52
littlegirlI'm open to suggestion, and if you ever see me do anything I shouldn't, don't hesitate to let me know. (:15:52
jjessei think the TODO file is pretty cool idea15:52
littlegirlYeah, the nice thing about that is if you download and then go offline. You then still can see everything in one place and not be left in a lurch until you get internet service again. (:15:53
littlegirlI still have a bunch of things I can do without any help, so there's plenty of time to get to the things I'm unsure of, but I'll fire off an email to you on the help:/kubuntu things and see if I can find out more about these HTML files in the ubuntu-doc channel, and then I'll be coming in here and all the other kubuntu and ubuntu channels begging people to please help me verify the accuracy of the content of all the topic docs. (15:55
littlegirl:15:55
Daskreechlittlegirl: SUre what's up?15:59
littlegirlThe common/legalnotice.xml file has this <ulink url="help:/kubuntu/copyright.html">Creative Commons ShareAlike License</ulink> link which points to a nonexistent file. Do you know who maintains that file (and any other html files that are linked to in the Kubuntu system documentation) and where I can find a copy of it?16:01
littlegirlSorry, link to the document in question: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/kubuntu-docs/quantal/view/head:/common/legalnotice.xml16:02
DaskreechWell the creative commons is a common (ha haha ooooh) license. It has multiple versions so I would suspect they want a particular version16:04
Daskreech Unless they were upgrading versions and misplaced the file?16:05
Daskreechhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode is the current version16:06
Daskreechhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ if you want a human to read it16:06
littlegirlIt pointed to 2.5. Should I update it to 3.0 in the Kubuntu system documentation?16:06
littlegirlThis is a link to a local copy in case there is no internet connection, and it's expecting to find an html file. Is that something I should create and put somewhere in the documentation, or is that handled by the Ubuntu team?16:07
littlegirlOh, I forgot to mention that I made an appropriate groan sound at your common reference. (:16:07
ScottKYou can't change it from 2.5 to 3.0 without permission of all the copyright holders.16:10
littlegirlOkay, I won't touch it, then. (:16:10
DaskreechScottK: would the copyright holders be the doc team in this instance?16:50
ScottKIt would be whoever wrote the words.16:50
Daskreechlittlegirl: I would guess that you could put a copy there but ask the Ubuntu team who put it there in the first place. May as well find out if they wanted it updated in the meantime16:51
littlegirlThanks - I'll ask in the #ubuntu-doc channel. (:17:15
DaskreechRC2 is out17:18
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SteveRileyapachelogger: claydoh: i'm not sure how many folks on KFN are using KTP (or its predecessor). i'll start a thread in the quantal forum asking for folks to chime in with feedback. can i point folks to sumski's existing KTP ppa so they can get the 0.4 bits now?19:24
littlegirlOkay, my sleuthing efforts have resulted in finding html versions of almost all the documents in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kubuntu/ but the copyright.html file is still missing. Does anybody know how and/or why those html documents are generated? They appear to be html versions of the Kubuntu system documentation xml files.20:28
ScottKDarkwing: ^^^^ jjesse ^^^20:33
littlegirlLOL20:33
* littlegirl heads into email20:33
ScottKIt's possible Riddell might know.20:38
ScottKPersonally, i have a life goal to avoid knowing about XML as much as possible.20:38
littlegirlI just recently learned XML and DocBook and I'm loving them. You probably just need to get to know them better and you'll develop warm fuzzies for them. (:20:42
littlegirlI've got a pretty big Linux blog and I'm contemplating converting all my content to DocBook just because it's a wonderful tool for converting content to a whole lot of other formats quickly. (:20:43
ScottKI may be weird, but I find csv and counting rows more intuitive.21:18
Riddelllittlegirl: yes those are the xml docbook converted into html which is what the packageis21:24
littlegirlRiddell: Thanks! How is that done? There's no script for it in the scripts subdirectory, and since at least one of the html files is missing, it looks like the script that does it should be updated.21:35
Riddelllittlegirl: it's in the packaging21:46
Riddellactually it's in Makefile21:46
Riddellsee target under "All Kubuntu Documentation"21:47
Riddellfor doc in `ls docs/`;21:47
* Riddell snoozes21:54
littlegirlHmmm, I see that now, thanks! Then that file needs to be tweaked to include the contents of the common subdirectory. In the meantime I changed the links to point to the xml documents to get around the problem entirely. (:21:55
littlegirlIs there any objection to doing that with all the html links?21:55
* littlegirl hands Riddell some coffee21:56
littlegirlScottK: That sounds fine to me. (:21:56
littlegirlWorse and worse. That Makefile does address common, so it's over my head. Hopefully one of you can fix it. (:21:57
littlegirlRiddell: You're a genius! Problem solved! That file refers to license.html instead of copyright.html. When I change copyright to license, all is again well with the world. (:22:14

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