Re: GNOME 2.0 System Admin Guide.

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Some good points there Sasha. We will add those to the list of possible topics. 
The abandoned GNOME Admin Guide might be worth a look if only for historical 
reasons. 

Thanks, 

Pat

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> Some obvious things - I am sure you have thought about this yourself,
> but anyway, these are the questions to which I'd like to have an
> answer...
> 
>  - gnome config files: where all the user and system wide settings are
> stored? 
> 
>  - how one sets default desktop settings (panel, MIME type binding,
> window manager, theme, etc)  for all users (quite a common question for
> sysadmins)
> 
>  - font management: where GNOME apps get their list of available fonts?
> How one adds a font to this list? Which types of fonts are supported
> (AFAIK,  both TrueType and Type 1 PS)
> 
> - installation issues: how one installs GNOME: from tarballs, CVS
> scripts, ...
> 
> Also: IIIRC, someone started writing "GNOME Admin Guide" more than a
> year ago. It never got far, but still we might look at it. Does nayone
> remember the details?
> 
> 
> Sasha
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 11:36, Pat Costello wrote:
> > The Sun documentation team is planning to make a start on a GNOME 2.0 System 
> > Administration Guide sometime in September. Our intention is to make the  
> > material as generic as possible so that other community members can use the 
> > manual. We have some ideas about possible contents, but we do not have a 
formal 
> > table of contents (TOC) just yet. When we do have a working idea about the 
> > contents, we will publish a provisional TOC. 
> > 
> > In the meantime, if anyone would like to suggest topics for inclusion in the 
> > System Admin Guide, we are keen to listen. I have copied this mail to the 
> > developers list as well, as there are doubtless some topics that developers 
are 
> > keen to see covered. 
> > 
> > We only have two or three months to prepare the first publishable draft of 
this 
> > manual, so we are working to a tight schedule. If we do not incorporate all 
the  
> > suggestions first time around, there will be future revisions in which we 
can 
> > expand the manual to include suitable topics. 
> > 
> > Pat
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