Re: [gnome-love] Easy project: Document writer credits in About boxes

[Chee Bin HOH <cbhoh mimos my>]

Hi malcolm,

I will take a look into this issue and make a patch for those
applications that missing documenter credits, I hope to do these after I
review a few doc for the coming 2.6, sorry for not responding to your
mail in gnome-doc-list gnome org.

Besides that, I also notice that many help button just does not work. if
you click on it, it will either do nothing or open a yelp browser
showing error message that can not find the help file (or other).

* Show Desktop applet gets a help button, but yelp showing error
  while opening the help file.

* The modemlights applet has help button which do nothing while you
  click on it.(the documentation is already there)

* ...

For those who don't know, the GNOME help file is xml docbook format
which is located in ${prefix}/share/gnome/help/${application}/C/*.xml

GNOME help uses omf as a cataloging tool, which the omf files are
located in ${prefix}/share/omf/${application}/*-C.omf


> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>
> To: GNOME Doc List <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
> Subject: Document writer credits in About boxes
> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:23:16 +1030
>
> During a talk / demonstration about GNOME that I was giving yesterday, I
> was showing off how the standard About box shows translator credits in
> each locale that has translation. Of course, I then wanted to show that
> we credit documenters as well.
>
> Unfortunately, we don't do that quite as well as we could. Part of the
> reason is that translator credits happen automatically (they translate a
> special string and the code puts it into the appropriate tab in the
> dialog box). Documenter credits need to be manually inserted into the
> source code by the maintainer. For the time being, we cannot easily
> change the latter item (API compatibility), but it is something to think
> about moving forwards.
>
> However, for GNOME 2.6, we should make an effort to go through every
> single application that has documentation and if all of the people who
> have contributed significantly to an application's documentation are not
> in the About box, send a patch to that maintainer (or at least a list of
> who should be in the box; it is an easy change in the source to fix
> this).
>
> At the moment, documentation writers are not getting the credit they
> deserve. This is unprofessional of us and we should fix it.
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
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