Re: [DIGImend-devel] Wiki editing

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Viktoria,

On 06/05/2012 11:13 AM, Viktoria S. wrote:
> Well, it can be a good idea yes. It will be easier for the users to find
> informations, and I guess it will be easier to maintain it too. I suggest
> to do the following pages then:
> Tablet setup in Gimp
> Tablet setup in MyPaint
> Tablet setup in Krita
> Tablet setup in Alchemy
> Tablet setup in Blender
> Tablet setup in Wine
> (I am not quite sure about this topic yet. I guess it should be created,
> because there are some people who are running windows applications under
> wine and they want to use their tablet there as well. But there is a bug
> in wine.... I tried to run Gimp 2.8 windows version and my tablet is not
> recognised at all, but I guess I should file a bug first which I hasn't
> done yet.)

If there could be Wine-specific setup instructions, then I think it is still
worth creating a page on Wine, even if it doesn't work, just to say that and
link to the bug, which would describe the reasons and possible resolution.

If Wine-based applications are set up differently and their setup differs
from Windows it is better to have separate application pages, IMHO. So, if
there are no significant amount of common Wine-specific instructions between
them, we could just have links to the bug from application pages.

I don't think there is much sense in running Windows version of Gimp on
Linux, so instructions for that are not needed, probably. Yet, we could try
looking at how popular Windows-native apps work under Wine.

> Tablets and QT
> (I guess this topic should be created because of the QT bug. Do you have
> better idea for the title?)

If this page is needed only to describe the issue, and there is no common
Qt-specific instructions there, then we can simply add a note and a link to
the bug to all the Qt-based application pages.

> I think there is no need for creating a page for Pencil then, unless users
> demand it.

Well, you probably know better if the instructions are needed - I never used
it and don't know if it's popular or not.

>> We can additionally have toolkit categories, if needed.
>>
>> The category pages would look like this one (with more introductory
>> text, maybe):
>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/digimend/index.php?title=Category:Tablets
>>
>> If you don't like this design, we could have a dedicated page instead,
>> but the list of articles will need manual updating in this case.
>
> I guess let's drop this category stuff then. My main idea was that if a
> program uses a toolkit and the tablet works then probably it is going to
> work in other applications using the same toolkit too. And if a toolkit
> does not support the tablet then none of the applications will work with
> the tablet (see QT).

I think we can achieve similar effect with just notes and links to the bug.
Still, we'll need a page listing all the application-specific instructions.

>> 3. There are some small English mistakes and minor style issues. If
>> you don't mind, I can fix them in place. I'll try to group the changes
>> so that it is easier for you to review. Maybe Dave would be able to go
>> through and further improve them after my fixes.
>
> OK, thanks. But I guess that should be done after the content has been
> reorganized.

Sure. Thank you :)

Sincerely,
Nick