Re: CSS for Help Docs

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 12 Feb 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> mån 2002-02-11 klockan 16.39 skrev Alex Larsson:
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Calum Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I might be able to add something like this, (if it should be implemented
> > > > in Yelp, might be some other desktop-wide setting)? If it is, it can be
> > > > used in other programs that can be used to watch help, like
> > > > Galeon,Nautilus,...
> > > 
> > > One idea might be to handle this the way MacOS handles settings that are
> > > shared between applications.  That is, there is a system default setting
> > > that can be set somewhere (the control center, in our case), which all
> > > the apps use by default.  But the user can also manually over-ride that
> > > default in each app individually, via its Preferences dialog.
> > > 
> > > If we do it this way, it doesn't matter so much if the capplet to change
> > > the global default setting doesn't come along until later, provided the
> > > appropriate GConf keys are in place to make it all happen.  In the
> > > meantime, apps such as Yelp, Nautilus, Galeon etc. could still provide
> > > their own GUIs for selecting either a user-defined stylesheet or the
> > > 'default'; there just wouldn't be any way of changing which stylesheet
> > > the 'default' referred to just yet.
> > 
> > Normally a html page lists several alternative stylesheets. And each page 
> > can list different ones. I don't see how you in general can make this a 
> > global prefs, but i guess if we standardize a couple of names for them we 
> > can chose them if they exist.
> 
> Ok, so how should this be fixed in Yelp. Any ideas? From what I
> understand there is some sort of UI-freeze with tomorrows release? I
> will not be able to add anything to Yelp before that but I can at least
> flag for the changes I will make before hand.

How bad is this UI freeze? I've asked the docs people here to come up with 
some nicer headers and stuff for the Yelp index pages. Does the UI freeze 
mean we have to keep looking like ass?

/ Alex