[Nautilus-list] Re: New member and Nautilus Help Browser

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo kovacs Sun COM> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> By now probably everybody heard about the GNOME Foundation related news. 
> 
> I work for the Sun Microsystems Desktop Engineering team and I would
> like to find out how can we contribute to the Nautilus Help Browser. 
> 
> We were told by Miguel that nobody is working on the help browsing and
> Eazel said they don't have resources for this. Later on I learnt from
> the first GDP status report that Ali Abdin is working on it.

Hi Laszlo!

We are looking forward to working with you. The help system needs a
lot of design work at this point. We have talked with the GDP people
some about this, because the browser has to integrate with the way the
docs work. Why don't you try looking around at the code that is there
now and poking around a bit. We can also help you out with any general
questions about the Nautilus architecture. You can also look in
bugzilla.eazel.com for some of the current open bugs for the help
component. You should also talk to Ali, he can often be found on IRC
on #nautilus, ont he irc.gnome.org server, as `rak'.

Also, if you are in the Bay Area, it could be useful to visit Eazel
and talk to the Nautilus hackers in person.

 - Maciej