Re: [evolution-patches] menu patch for quick reference (bug 127545)

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

It's OK with me-- JP should give it the final arbitration, though. 

Docs patches don't normally require copyright paperwork, but this does
involve some code as well-- we should probably ask about that.


On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:38, David Trowbridge wrote:
> Ok, I've posted an updated version to the bugzilla page, basically the
> same thing with everything in /help instead of /doc.
> 
> Anything else?
> -David
> 
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:19, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > Yes, it should go into help/ (sorry not to warn you about that
> > earlier)-- /doc is for devel docs, /help is for user docs. Not a very
> > clear distinction.
> > 
> > Second, I think we did say that PDF or PS was fine -- Docbook isn't
> > really an option unless we add printing support to Yelp, which is not a
> > short project, although I'm sure shaunm would love you for it. I am
> > concerned that this may be difficult to update, but I don't know what
> > other options we have ... 
> > 
> > As long as we're sure to use the native pdf reader I think we're OK--
> > I'm willing to assume that there is one, and that it prints well. We'll
> > have to be sure the PDF looks good in kghostview though, which I think
> > is what KDE uses.
> > 
> > JPR-- does this sound correct to you? 
> > 
> > a.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 09:10, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:20, David Trowbridge wrote:
> > > > I just noticed that Dan didn't actually attach the patch, only the
> > > > tarball. Here's the actual code for review.
> > > > 
> > > > -David
> > > 
> > > Ok, so a few comments.  First is, why choose pdf?  Did you look into
> > > using docbook somehow?  This makes it easy to have a pdf or html or text
> > > version of the card.  Next, although I'm not positive, the card should
> > > probably be in help/ rather than doc/ (Aaron?).  Finally I'm not sure
> > > about relying on a PDF viewer - what are the options and how do they
> > > affect printing?
> > > 
> > > -JP
> > 
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