Re: GNOME 2.0 System Admin Guide.

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

AFAIK, it was never in CVS - it was on Paul Cooper's page at Warwick
Univ. I can't find the original site anymore, but google search turned
out a copy here: 
http://www.darboux.uklinux.net/gnome/gag/intro.html
However, it seems that it is mostly of historical interest...

Sasha



On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 10:35, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> I haven't been able to find the old Admin Guide in cvs. There are references 
> to it in the following mails:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2000-February/msg00105.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2000-August/msg00010.html
> 
> Do these jog anyone's memory?
> 
> Eugene
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM> 
> To: gnome-doc-list gnome org, kirillov math sunysb edu 
> Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 System Admin Guide. 
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:15:16 +0100 (BST) 
> 
> 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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