The Plasma Handbook is in need of serious updates.

Ivan Stanton 2112871 at jeffcoschools.us
Sun Mar 26 14:10:28 UTC 2017


Thanks very much for making the docbook!
I'll see if I can get some peer review on Phabricator.

On 3/26/17, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
> субота, 25-бер-2017 17:49:58 Ivan Stanton написано:
>> I added a few more widgets to my partial rewrite of the Plasma Handbook.
>
> As it is a major rewrite, it will be valuable (imho) to hear opinions on the
>
> new content first.
>
> Thus, I have attached the converted DocBook and its PDF version to discuss.
>
> The old docs are available here:
>
> https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/index.html
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri
>
>> On 3/25/17, Ivan Stanton <2112871 at jeffcoschools.us> wrote:
>> > Here's the first draft of a partial rewrite of the Plasma Handbook.
>> > Written in Markdown; when converting to docbook, make its format
>> > similar to the original without changing body text.
>> > It doesn't have everything I want it to, but it certainly has more
>> > info than the original Plasma Handbook.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ivan
>> >
>> > On 3/25/17, Ivan Stanton <2112871 at jeffcoschools.us> wrote:
>> >> Thanks once again, Yuri.
>> >> It's going to be a while before I'm satisfied with the edits. Plasma
>> >> is
>> >> big.
>> >>
>> >> On 3/25/17, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
>> >>> субота, 25-бер-2017 11:33:53 Ivan Stanton написано:
>> >>>> The KDE Plasma Handbook needs serious updates.
>> >>>> Specifically:
>> >>>> -Use the new Plasma logo
>> >>>> -Description of default Plasma not up to date
>> >>>> -No info about Application Dashboard, little about Menu
>> >>>> -Not enough information on settings
>> >>>> -Lots of (outdated) information on Userbase is not updated and put
>> >>>> into the Plasma Handbook
>> >>>> -Folder view description not up to date with git release(minor)
>> >>>> I may draft an improved version, but I am not familiar with DocBook,
>> >>>> so it will either be in HTML or plaintext.
>> >>>
>> >>> Ok. We can add some markup later.
>> >>>
>> >>> You can just download the original, insert the plain text and send it
>> >>> to
>> >>> me
>> >>> to
>> >>> add the markup.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/plain/doc/plasma-desktop/index.d
>> >>> ocbook
>> >>>
>> >>> This is how it looks like when compiled::
>> >>>
>> >>> https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/index.html
>> >>>
>> >>> Then I can make a code review request on Phabricator for further
>> >>> discussions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best regards,
>> >>> Yuri
>


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