[kde-doc-english] K3b Manual

[Philip Rodrigues]

Hi Adrian,

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 6:29 pm, Jadic Family wrote:
> As promissed I am attaching the plan to rewrite the k3b manual. It is
> divided in 3 phases in order of importance. Phase one will focus on adding
> missing features. The existing format will be kept intact and I will delete
> only things that are really not valid (anymore).
>
> Later, as I get my feet wet I will do more in-depth things.
>
> I discussed the plan with Sebastian and this is the final (starting) form.

The plan looks great, and I agree with your ordering of phases.

> I am sorry that I cannot do it directly in docbook now. It would take me
> too much learning time and I want to spend this time on actual
> documentation and only after I get it to an acceptable level I will start
> writing in docbook and move on to more specialised tasks.

That's no problem at all - in fact, we prefer people to start off with writing 
in plain text, for the reasons you mention. We can easily add the docbook 
markup later if the content is there.

> Pls. let me know your opinion and mostly how do I send in the screenshots.
> Also if there are any guidelines on the screenshots (size, window
> decoration etc.) .... I haven't finished reading the KDE Doc Primer yet.
> Will do!

Generally keep screenshots as small as reasonably possible, but there's no 
hard-and-fast rule for size. Use the default widget style (plastik), colour 
theme ('kde default') and windeco (also plastik) for consistency.

> I would also like to know what is the deal with "Copyright Carsten Niehaus"
> and how this affects my intended modifications.

KDE documentation is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence, which, 
much like the GPL, allows anyone to make modifications. You can find the text 
of the FDL at:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
and some information about the KDE use of the FDL at:
http://l10n.kde.org/docs//doc-primer/licenses.html

Hope that helps - if you have any other questions, just ask.

Regards,
Philip
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