Re: [gnome-love] Needing assistance with man page and GDM

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Jonas:

> > Most of the community man pages are in NROFF format. 
>
> Are there man pages not writting using NROFF ?

I know that Sun installs SGML man pages to /usr/share/man/sman*.
I believe man for Linux can support SGML or will at some point.
If not, SGML can be transformed to NROFF.  This would be better
for the community I think since SGML is the way manpages are going
and it would allow Sun to work more closely with the community to
update man pages.

> > but it might be nice if the community moved towards
> > XML Docbook.  One advantage of doing this is that it would be easier to
> > include copies of the man pages in the User manual that gets displayed
>
> I agree, but how are you planning on writting a new man application to
> handle the XML Docbook man pages ?

If a SGML man page program isn't available in Linux, then the pages
can be transformed to NROFF.

> > Secondly, there is a real need to cleanup the user interface in GDM.
> > Look at all these gdm interface bugs.  gdm2 could use a bit of a
> > usability/interface overhaul.  Anybody want to help.  I'm happy to
> > provide guidance/assistance to any developers who want to get started
> > with gdm2.
>
> What about the fact that gdm-setup still uses Gtk-1.* , and that you
> first have to be root before you can run it, instead of prompting the
> user for the root password and then run it ?

Yes, that's in the list.

Brian