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GIMP-2.4 help

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GIMP-2.4 help julien 07 Feb 08:58
  GIMP-2.4 help Marco Ciampa 07 Feb 09:07
  GIMP-2.4 help Sven Neumann 07 Feb 09:32
   GIMP-2.4 help Roman Joost 07 Feb 09:42
   GIMP-2.4 help julien 07 Feb 18:56
    GIMP-2.4 help Roman Joost 07 Feb 20:23
julien
2007-02-07 08:58:29 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? I had a trial writing the help of Rectangular Selection for Gimp-2.3.14, for 'en' and 'fr', keeping old stuff for other languages. It is not easy because of many changes and consumes much time. I would prefer writing help from scratch only for 'en' and 'fr'. Then other contributors would have to copy-paste unchanged text from GIMP-2.2 and translate new textes.
What is your opinion about that?

Julien

Marco Ciampa
2007-02-07 09:07:15 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:58:29AM +0100, julien wrote:

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? I had a trial writing the help of Rectangular Selection for Gimp-2.3.14, for 'en' and 'fr', keeping old stuff for other languages. It is not easy because of many changes and consumes much time. I would prefer writing help from scratch only for 'en' and 'fr'. Then other contributors would have to copy-paste unchanged text from GIMP-2.2 and translate new textes.
What is your opinion about that?

Everyone writes something for all the comunity and not for only the mother tongue's is worth a big thank...

Said this, please use what you prefer.

Sven Neumann
2007-02-07 09:32:15 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:58 +0100, julien wrote:

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? I had a trial writing the help of Rectangular Selection for Gimp-2.3.14, for 'en' and 'fr', keeping old stuff for other languages.

I don't think it makes sense to attempt to document 2.4 before the UI is frozen. The rectangular selection tool in particular is far from finished. If you document the current state now, your text will be wrong when 2.4 is released.

Sven

Roman Joost
2007-02-07 09:42:01 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:15AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:58 +0100, julien wrote:

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? I had a trial writing the help of Rectangular Selection for Gimp-2.3.14, for 'en' and 'fr', keeping old stuff for other languages.

I don't think it makes sense to attempt to document 2.4 before the UI is frozen. The rectangular selection tool in particular is far from finished. If you document the current state now, your text will be wrong when 2.4 is released.

Having Sven said this, this is also documented on the WIKI:

http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/GimpDocsRoadmap

So, don't document anything of the development releases until an UI freeze.

Greeting,

julien
2007-02-07 18:56:50 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

That's the risk

But I think we must start understanding new functions now. Writing a draft is a good way to understand.
There will be much work for the new help. If we don't start thinking about it now, I am afraid that there will be a long time before we get a valuable Help. Unless there will be many doc writers :-)...

Sven Neumann a ?crit :

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:58 +0100, julien wrote:

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? I had a trial writing the help of Rectangular Selection for Gimp-2.3.14, for 'en' and 'fr', keeping old stuff for other languages.

I don't think it makes sense to attempt to document 2.4 before the UI is frozen. The rectangular selection tool in particular is far from finished. If you document the current state now, your text will be wrong when 2.4 is released.

Sven

Roman Joost
2007-02-07 20:23:56 UTC (about 18 years ago)

GIMP-2.4 help

Hi Julien,

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:56:50PM +0100, julien wrote:

Sven Neumann a ?crit :

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:58 +0100, julien wrote:

How will we manage writing help for GIMP-2.4 ? [...]

I don't think it makes sense to attempt to document 2.4 before the UI is frozen. [...]

That's the risk

But I think we must start understanding new functions now. Writing a draft is a good way to understand. There will be much work for the new help. If we don't start thinking about it now, I am afraid that there will be a long time before we get a valuable Help. Unless there will be many doc writers :-)...

Not beeing up to date after the UI freeze is a case I'm willing to sacrifice. Spending to much work we need to throw away afterwards would be much more demotivating than rewriting a frew chapters more.

Greetings,