Re: Some 'misc' question on Gnome

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 08:03, Zenith Lau wrote:
> Hi to all developers and all Gnome Fans,
> 
> 	As what I have stat in the title, I have some question regarding Gnome, I'm not sure it is the right place for my question, but in case, I am wrong, please let me knows : )
> 
> 	While playing with Gnome2, I find that, it is more and more difficult to find information, or documentation about Gnome2 and all the apps on top of it. Though, there is a lot of doc. on the deverloper.gnome.org and some others spread over the net, I can not find the information easily. And I always wonder if it exists. For e.g, the i18n issue, both input and output: I know that, gnome2 has adopt a modular approach and use module to load input program for differnet locale/ script, but where is the documentation about this?? For the output, pango is great, but again, there is no tutorial on this, on the API hosted on gnome.org. Most importantly, there is a whitepaper on i18n of Gnome by owen, but seems that, the white is some what outdated, you (and all other develpers) has implemented a lots, but seems that, the information and related documentation does not organized very well.
> 
> 	Another examples, the desktop menu, once, is using a directory like structure to store, and now vfs, but it's hard to find the relevent information, I find the information through google, but not through the web site of gnome.

On this there are two docs available which I wrote/co-wrote linked to
from the release notes

http://www.redtux.demon.co.uk/docs/gnome_menu_edit_doc.20_6.html
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html

> 	IMHO, the web site of a large project like Gnome should provide most up-todate information for the user, but I don't see that for Gnome. Rather kde does a good works on these. (Personally, I don't like KDE, but Gnome is really lose on this aspect)

There are a lot of docs from the gnome2 announcement link

> 	Right, the above is my complaints, afterall, I have some questions, can I post comments or questions on this list, which is regarding the usability, or functional features of Gnome apps?? For example, the mailbox applets, I find that, it can't check the my mailbox on my company mail server, however it does well on my personal web-server. I think that, the applet is working but have some minor problems. Also it would be better, if I can use this to check 'more than one' mailbox at the same time. Such question can't consider as a bug, and I don't sure if I should post it on there, where should these questions and comments go ?? usabiltiy list, here, or anywhere else??

A good site is http://www.gnomesupport.org and a better mailing list is
probabably the main gnome list

> 	This mail is a little bit long, but I just want to bring out some point. I am Gnome Fans and hope that this great and large project can be keep improving and got a greater succeed!
> 
> Zenith
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