[kde-doc-english] Kaffeine documentation

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab at infradead.org
Sun Jun 5 14:14:22 UTC 2016


Em Sat, 04 Jun 2016 20:26:44 +0200
Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> escreveu:

> Hi Mauro,
> 
> Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2016, 17:30:28 CEST schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
> > Em Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:53:57 +0200
> > 
> > Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> escreveu:  
> > > Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2016, 16:46:18 CEST schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab:  
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I recently ported Kaffeine multimedia player to KF5/Qt5 and I'm trying
> > > > to
> > > > address the pending issues. Among them, there's the lack of a
> > > > documentation
> > > > for it on the recent versions.
> > > > 
> > > > I discovered that, up to versions 0.x, Kaffeine used to have a DocBook
> > > > 
> > > > documentation. It can be seen by opening the old sources, like:
> > > > 	http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, it is not a bright documentation:
> > > > 	192K	discwindow.png
> > > > 	20K	dvbbroadcast.png
> > > > 	392K	dvbclient.png
> > > > 	40K	dvbconfig.png
> > > > 	28K	dvbepg.png
> > > > 	76K	dvblive.jpg
> > > > 	44K	dvbscan.png
> > > > 	36K	dvbtimers.png
> > > > 	260K	dvbwin.png
> > > > 	44K	gstpart.png
> > > > 	28K	index.docbook
> > > > 	108K	kaffeinepart.png
> > > > 	4,0K	Makefile.am
> > > > 	20K	Makefile.in
> > > > 	84K	playlistwin.png
> > > > 	40K	startwindow.png
> > > > 
> > > > But it seems to be a starting point. Yet, it relies on automake
> > > > instead of cmake.
> > > > 
> > > > The question is: how can we put it somewhere with the currently used
> > > > tools and start improving it?  
> > > 
> > > Please add the documentation to the kaffeine repo in a folder "doc" so we
> > > can start together to update is to the kf5 world and improve it.  
> > 
> > Just published a blog article about Kaffeine 2.0 at:
> > 	https://blogs.s-osg.org/watching-digital-tv-via-kaffeine/?  
> preview_id=3337&p
> > review_nonce=eee042fc33&preview=true
> >   
> @ mailinglist: 
> please use https://blogs.s-osg.org/watching-digital-tv-via-kaffeine/ to read, 
> a preview is not public.

Sorry, didn't notice I posted the preview link. 

> > It may help to update the Kaffeine Handbook documentation.
> >   
> I'd like to use the content (text + images) in your blog for the docbook as it 
> covers the special features (TV support) quite nice:
> 
> 1) How to Install Kaffeine -> skip it because our target audience is joe user 
> using distro packages
> 
> 2) Kaffeine Player Basic Functionality - add it to the docbook
> 
> 3) Worldwide video standards and Linux Kernel support + 4) Digital TV hardware 
> - interesting read at least for me, but skip it because our target audience is 
> joe user how should not have to care about these technical details
> 
> 5) Kaffeine as a Graphical User Interface for Digital TV and 
> 6) Recording Programs in Kaffeine - add it to the docbook

Sounds like a plan.

> 
> I see just a minor issue with your screenshots, we use the default Breeze 
> Design for the screenshots for consistency.
> So you either retake the screenshots or I take the start screen with Breeze 
> and use your screenshots and cut off the window decoration - I have no TV 
> card. 

I took new screenshots. They are at:
	https://mchehab.fedorapeople.org/kaffeine_screenshots/

Feel free to use as you wish.

> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Regards,
Mauro


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