Re: The Guide to getting Point and Click going with Gvim under Ubuntu 18

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Andrew

Il giorno gio 28 feb 2019 alle 3:05, Andrew Bernard 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hi Federico,
>
> Hmm. This is becoming somewhat problematical. Fedora is clearly 
> significantly different to Ubuntu, in relation to the behaviour of 
> GNOME. At this rate, there will need to be a section for every major 
> distro of Linux, due to variations. It will be infeasible to make 
> this generic. I also run Debian and it has its differences also. I 
> suppose this is the nature of Linux distros.

Personally I'm against making the documentation too detailed and 
specific as it will become hard to maintain. I think a trade-off is 
possible..


> The Lilypond Usage section is in fact incorrect regarding Apparmor on 
> Ubuntu and should be corrected, as this is one of the most difficult 
> part, that few people understand. Not many users customise Apparmor - 
> it's quite arcane.
>
> While I am happy to learn the development submission process, it's 
> true that this page is somewhat more tutorial than reference. That's 
> in fact the idea. So now I am favouring a blog post at Scores of 
> Beauty. But I will reflect on it.

Then go for the blog post. Scores of Beauty's last post was published 
last year... we need new articles!
I have two drafts in Scores of Beauty which I could not complete yet. 
One is about point and click configuration in all operating systems. I 
was stuck because of some problems I got with Windows and especially 
Mac. Now I'm convinced I should split the post in three and publish the 
Linux part soon. The rest will follow...


> I run virtual Linux machines and I am happy to run up all the major 
> distros and to account for all the differences, but this seems like a 
> large amount of work for something that people don't necessarily even 
> want anyway. And there is no way I am going to write anything for 
> Windows, or Mac.

I'm happy to make a few tests and write a Doc patch on this subject. It 
was in my TODO list since I sent the last patch for the Usage manual.