HTML version of README for Live USB

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Aug 29 04:12:35 UTC 2008


Peter Scheie wrote:
> I moved the directory with the first draft to make room for the second 
> draft. You'll find them both at  http://petre.homedns.org/f9-ltsp/
> In the second draft, I reduced all the images to 8-bit color.  They look 
> a bit washed out, but I think are still quite readable.  Whereas draft 1 
> was a total of 1228KB, draft2 is only 276KB!  Is that small enough Warren?
> 
> Peter

Good choice to eliminate the background texture.  It really is
irrelevant to convey to the user what actions are needed.  It also
"debrands" the screenshot so it could refer to Fedora 9 or Fedora 10.
(Although possibly it could be simplified further in Fedora 10 if the
tools have improved.  For example I believe Dan Williams did some work
to have NetworkManager support BRIDGE= syntax.  We need to check on this
soon.)

Title of the page still says "Live USB" which is not entirely accurate.

So, I did not expect you to cut size nearly this much.  Perhaps this was
a little too much.  It looks good enough, except for the striping effect
in the menus and drop-down boxes.  Please use your best judgement to
find the right balance of look and size.

Here is the plan how we will ship your new HTML-ized README.  It will be
installed via its own package like ltsp-server-setupdoc.  All of the
files will be dropped into a directory like
/usr/share/ltsp-server-setupdoc/.  The reason it has its own package is
because this does not belong in the ltsp upstream or within ltsp
software packages.  This is a Fedora specific thing.

I notice that the screenshots have the Beta 1 text file on the Desktop.
    We will replace this with a .desktop launcher that runs firefox with
file:///usr/share/ltsp-server-setupdoc/something.html as the parameter.
  For your screenshot you can create .desktop launcher by right-clicking
on the desktop and "Create Launcher..."  Please call it "README LTSP
Server Setup".  The spaces are fine.  Try to find an icon that is
already shipped in the Live image that would be appropriate for this
launcher.  Send me the raw .desktop file after you have created it and
chosen an icon so I can package it.

Overall, great work Peter!

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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