Re: writing help files for gnome 2.0 programs

[hobbit aloss ukuu org uk]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:02:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> On 22 Aug 2002, Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> > Probably the best place for many of these questions is
> > gnome-doc-list gnome org, FWIW, though some of the yelp questions
> > are probably appropriate at desktop-devel-list gnome org  Good luck-
> > Luis
> >
> > P.S. Admins, when are we finally going to shut this list down? How
> > long has it been deprecated for now? :)
> 
> Why is this list "deprecated"?  The other lists you mention seem to
> have different foci: gnome-doc-list seems to be concerned with the
> documentation of gnome itself, and desktop-devel-list seems to focus
> on development of gnome itself.  Important topics, but they're not
> what I'm primarily interested in, namely issues relating to the
> development of apps for the gnome platform.  I thought that was the
> topic of this list.

I agree. gnome-1.4-list and gnome-2.0-list are the ones I remember
thinking were to go away. My understanding is that desktop-devel
is for developing Gnome, and gnome-devel is for developing apps
which use Gnome. 

Not that I do either. 

gnome-doc-list can probably answer some of the questions: as well
as writing help and docs, it gets questions on applications which
display help, and DTDs, and all manner of stuff I don't understand
when I read it :) 

But I thought you asked in the right place :) 

Telsa