Fedora Xfce documentation

[Brock Hudson]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:15:20 +0000
Nathan Thomas <nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Brock's email thread about DVD installation media kind of branched
> into a sub-thread about Fedora Xfce documentation. I just wanted to
> point out that we already have some documentation of the Xfce desktop
> and applications included in the Xfce Spin in the Fedora User Guide
> (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/User_Guide/index.html),
> almost as much as we have for GNOME and KDE, in fact.
> 
> I'll be trying to update this material for Xfce 4.8 in time for
> Fedora 15. Brock mentioned that he would like to write an
> introductory guide for Xfce in Fedora, which would be great - it
> would presumably be more substantial than existing documentation, and
> it would be nice to have all the Xfce documentation collected in one
> place rather than mixed in with GNOME and KDE stuff, as it is at the
> moment. However, I'm concerned about duplication of effort. Should we
> simply remove the Xfce material from the User Guide and point people
> towards the new introductory guide? Or is there sufficient reason to
> keep some Xfce documentation in the User Guide?
> 
> I would strongly recommend making the new guide part of the Fedora
> Docs Project, so it can join the central online repository for Fedora
> documentation (http://docs.fedoraproject.org), and be easily
> translated by the Localisation teams using Transifex. See
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project for more info -
> documentation is marked up using Docbook XML and managed with the
> awesome Publican toolchain, but if you'd prefer to use the wiki or
> even just plain text for the introductory guide I'd be happy to do
> the XML/git/Publican bits.
> 
> Best wishes
> Nathan
> 
> 

I just looked at the "official" documentation for Xfce in the user
guide, it could use some work, Kudos to those whom contributed to it
but we can do better : ) I have some ideas for what we could include
and I thought of revising the way the current documentation stands. I
will send an email later after brainstorming on it for a while.