Monthly Archives: November 2009

OMFGWTFBBQ! No more Gimp?

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: November 26, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Seriously, is removing Gimp from a default install of Ubuntu that bad? Bad enough for you to leave Ubuntu for some other distribution? I have been reading blog posts, news sites, blog comments, IRC, Twitter, and Identi.ca, and what I am seeing simply amazes me. Thus far, the popular topic to these complaints is that [...]

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Kubuntu DocBook/XML 101

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: November 23, 2009 at 11:37 am

So, you keep hearing me talk about contributing to Kubuntu documentation, and you see that I say it would be nice for you to have some DocBook/XML experience. Many people want to help, but they don’t have that experience. In most cases, the people interested at least understand HTML or some other markup language a [...]

Posted in Development, Linux | Tagged Documentation, Kubuntu, Tutorial, Ubuntu | 3 Comments

Kubuntu Documentation Needs Help

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: November 22, 2009 at 10:42 pm

Here is the email I sent to the Ubuntu Documenation Project’s mailing list today: Currently we over in the Kubuntu world are completely rewriting the system documentation. Why you ask? Because the old documentation was just that, old. It contained information from the KDE 3.5 days. The reason for this is because for the past [...]