RE: General GNOME User docs

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Breit [mailto:battery841@mypad.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 6:23 PM
> To: Alexander Kirillov
> Cc: GDP
> Subject: Re: General GNOME User docs
> 
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:02:52PM -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > And yes, I think it is a good idea to include FDl, GPL, etc so that
> > any doc can link to them by using some standard URL, such as
> > <help:gpl>
> Quickly...word...I agree :)  Makes it very easy to keep the 
> GPL up to date
> if there is a change as well.

I agree with this as well, it would be nice to have a listing of the
licenses.  Do we just include the GPL and the FDL, or what?  There are other
licenses considered "free" by the FSF...

> > Finally: I'd like to include my pet project,  "If you are new to
> > Linux.." doc (which was an appendix to UG in 1.2) in the new
> > documentation package as well - if people think it is worth it. My
> > wife seems to appreciate this kind of "newbies" documentation. 
>
> I doubt your wife is the only one.  I think that Gnome is 
> lacking a "If you are
> new to Linux..." doc.  This is *definatly* something I am 
> going to say to
> include.  I don't see why it's not worth it.  I'll be wiling 
> to sacrifice
> 20k on my hard drive and download, even though I won't use 
> it.  I feel that
> the benefit of including it is well worth that 20k or 
> whatever it maybe.

I have some political objections to this.  Linux is NOT the only OS that
GNOME runs on.  Right this instant, it's probably bigger than all of the
others combined, but shipping GNOME with Solaris et al has the potential to
change that.  I doubt that anything else will weight in as heavily as Linux,
but they can certainly make it so that Linux has less than 50% of the GNOME
desktops.  I think we should leave this up to the people who actually
distribute GNOME, so that they can include one that's specific for their
operating environment.  SGI can include one for IRIX, Sun one for Solaris,
Debian one for Debian, RedHat one for RedHat.  Comments?
	Greg