Re: [Usability] The HIG and Mallard

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

Looks awesome, and practically the kind of thing we were talking about.

The question is, how easy is it to create the kind of structured content
we're talking about?

This will be a topic of interest at the hackfest, I think we're
intending to create a developer friendly source of GNOME related UI and
UX stuff here. It would be interesting to see for instance if this could
work along side jono's opportunistic programmer type stuff too... Mixing
dev docs with UI docs, snippets and libraries of knowledge...

BR,
K

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:17 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've read with interest some of the ideas about how to restructure
> the HIG to be less of a book and more of a collection of pointers
> and topics.
> 
> I'd like to explore whether Mallard is a good fit or this.  Mallard
> is a document format that's explicitly designed to support related
> collections of topics.  From what I've read, this seems it would
> fit better with the new direction than the current DocBook setup.
> 
> Read more on Mallard here:
> http://projectmallard.org/
> 
> Mallard is already being used by the documentation team for a lot
> of application help documents, but I think it can be generally
> useful for other types of non-linear documents.  It's actually
> used to build the Mallard site, including the specification, for
> example.
> 
> Is this something people would be interested in looking into?
> It may turn out that it's not a perfect fit after all, but I'd
> like to at least explore the possibility.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaun McCance
> http://syllogist.net/
> 
> 
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