A rough draft of the page is up on my user page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Escapingsummer I know my user page is bare bones, bare with me I am a college student :) Please any feedback would be appreciated.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:07:17AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote:
A rough draft of the page is up on my user page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Escapingsummer I know my user page is bare bones, bare with me I am a college student :) Please any feedback would be appreciated.
I think that looks awesome! Kudos on the work and the screenshots are great! Many thanks for doing this, I think the user community will be happy to know another documented way of getting Xfce on Fedora :)
-AdamM
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:50:48 -0600 Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:07:17AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote:
A rough draft of the page is up on my user page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Escapingsummer I know my user page is bare bones, bare with me I am a college student :) Please any feedback would be appreciated.
I think that looks awesome! Kudos on the work and the screenshots are great! Many thanks for doing this, I think the user community will be happy to know another documented way of getting Xfce on Fedora :)
-AdamM _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
Thanks, I will make the changes now. I was wondering if we should have kind of a "basics of Xfce page" since the front page of fedoraproject.org has that for gnome. It explains what applications do what etc. This is just an idea for now. I don't have anything specific in mind but if you guys do please lets collaborate on something.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:59:57AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote: <SNIP>
Thanks, I will make the changes now. I was wondering if we should have kind of a "basics of Xfce page" since the front page of fedoraproject.org has that for gnome. It explains what applications do what etc. This is just an idea for now. I don't have anything specific in mind but if you guys do please lets collaborate on something.
That would be awesome if you were willing to spend the time writing it up!
-AdamM
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:32:02 -0600 Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:59:57AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote:
<SNIP> > Thanks, I will make the changes now. I was wondering if we should > have kind of a "basics of Xfce page" since the front page of > fedoraproject.org has that for gnome. It explains what applications > do what etc. This is just an idea for now. I don't have anything > specific in mind but if you guys do please lets collaborate on > something.
That would be awesome if you were willing to spend the time writing it up!
-AdamM _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
I am volunteering to write it up. I just need some ideas on what to contain in the write up.
Adam Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:59:57AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote:
<SNIP> > I was wondering if we should have > kind of a "basics of Xfce page" since the front page of > fedoraproject.org has that for gnome. It explains what applications do > what etc. This is just an idea for now. I don't have anything specific > in mind but if you guys do please lets collaborate on something.
That would be awesome if you were willing to spend the time writing it up!
As a newcomer to XFCE, the topic I found most difficult was trying to add anything to the 'applications menu' that pops up in the bottom left corner.
Another issue that I've never really grasped is the '4 desktops' that you see on the bottom panel. I wasn't sure whether or how these differed, and what use (in the sense of example use cases) these multiple windows were.
The third item I did straightaway, which other newcomers might want to, is choose a window/application 'style' that consumed least 'real estate' on the screen, because I run F13 and F14 on netbooks with 1024x600. So I chose a style that had the smallest 'top bar' for each application window.
I'm by no means a skilled user of Fedora or XFCE, but I am very happy using it and achieving just about everything I seek to do. I just offer these ideas for intro text because I found them either difficult (one and two, above) or useful (three).
Hope this helps
regards, Ron
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:49:14 +0000 Ron Leach ronleach@tesco.net wrote:
Adam Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:59:57AM -0500, Brock Hudson wrote:
<SNIP> > I was wondering if we should have > kind of a "basics of Xfce page" since the front page of > fedoraproject.org has that for gnome. It explains what > applications do what etc. This is just an idea for now. I don't > have anything specific in mind but if you guys do please lets > collaborate on something.
That would be awesome if you were willing to spend the time writing it up!
As a newcomer to XFCE, the topic I found most difficult was trying to add anything to the 'applications menu' that pops up in the bottom left corner.
Another issue that I've never really grasped is the '4 desktops' that you see on the bottom panel. I wasn't sure whether or how these differed, and what use (in the sense of example use cases) these multiple windows were.
The third item I did straightaway, which other newcomers might want to, is choose a window/application 'style' that consumed least 'real estate' on the screen, because I run F13 and F14 on netbooks with 1024x600. So I chose a style that had the smallest 'top bar' for each application window.
I'm by no means a skilled user of Fedora or XFCE, but I am very happy using it and achieving just about everything I seek to do. I just offer these ideas for intro text because I found them either difficult (one and two, above) or useful (three).
Hope this helps
regards, Ron _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
Thanks Ron,
That kind of info is what I am looking for when making an introduction guide. Those four windows on your panel are your virtual desktops, if you haven't already researched that : ) I use Xfce on my netbook as well, however my netbook is just for surfing and basic word processing. I configured my xfce install for my netbook, meaning it doesn't look like a traditional desktop, it's geared towards the fact that a netbook is a low power machine intended for internet and basic word processing uses.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:07:17 -0500 Brock Hudson escapingsummer@gmail.com wrote:
A rough draft of the page is up on my user page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Escapingsummer I know my user page is bare bones, bare with me I am a college student :) Please any feedback would be appreciated.
Looks good to me too. ;)
As Christoph mentioned if we can get Xfce into the dvd media, it will be even easier. ;)
kevin
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:32:21 -0700 Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:07:17 -0500 Brock Hudson escapingsummer@gmail.com wrote:
A rough draft of the page is up on my user page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Escapingsummer I know my user page is bare bones, bare with me I am a college student :) Please any feedback would be appreciated.
Looks good to me too. ;)
As Christoph mentioned if we can get Xfce into the dvd media, it will be even easier. ;)
kevin
The changes have been made. I saved a back up of what was originally there as well.