gtop documentation

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

Hi there,

Some time ago, someone summarised a bunch of Gnome apps which lacked
documentation on gnome-doc-list@gnome.org:

> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 23:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alexander Kirillov <kirillov@math.sunysb.edu>
> CC: docs@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Help with Gnome documentation
[snip]
> 3. There are also some GNOME applications and utitlities missing
> documentation; IMHO, the most urgent are common utilities such as font
> and color selector, gtop, and PPP tool. If you want something more
> challenging, try writing docs for one of them. Just announce it to
> this list to avoid duplication of efforts, and get in touch with the
> author of the software - maybe, he is doing it himself.
> 
> 	Disclaimer: the above are my suggestions, not approved or
> authorised by anyone...
> 
> 		Best,
> 			Sasha

Okay, so that was more than "some time ago" :) I do keep an eye on
the Gnome CVS commits list, and I haven't seen anything which looks
to my ignorant eyes like "Brand new gtop documentation".

I now have the beginnings of a guide to gtop written in what is probably
very bad Docbook. Before I go any further, I have a few questions: 

(1) Is anyone doing this already? 

(2) Can I pester you for clarifications? I have been reading lots of
manual pages and /usr/doc/wotnots and so on, but there's still things
I'm not sure I have understood correctly. Also, I only have access to 
Linux: if it does different things on, say, Solaris, it would be good 
to know before I blithely assume that because it's like that on Linux 
it's like that everywhere. I gather that it certainly works differently
underneath. I mean more 'what it looks like to users'. 

Oh yes. When I say beginnings, I really mean that :) I've covered most
of what I have found out about the processes window, but the memory
and filesystem stuff is sketchy, and still in plain old ascii.
It took me six weeks to get this far, but I hope I might start
speeding up now..

Telsa