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## Refracta wiki project

Refracta Development, Scripts, etc.
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by golinux » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:57 pm

> fsmithred wrote:Oh, and I just thought of two other things that are not from debian - youtube-viewer and grub-doctor. I guess there should be a section in the release notes that gives links for these extras.

Good idea!
I was hoping meandean would stop by to talk about the installer before I put the info together. Think I'm good to go shortly . . . after I have breakfast and reread all the new documentation.
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by golinux » Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:55 pm

@fsmithred . . . working on the html documentation page. The file 'package_list_beta9.txt' opens in a browser. 'Release_Notes_7.00' does not but would if you added a .txt file extension to the document. Could you also please post in that same folder the refractasnapshot.conf and snapshot_exclude.list files so folks can access them from the wiki blurb without downloading/installing. Do you want me to 'prettify' the release notes into an html page with internal links to the various sections?
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by fsmithred » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:56 pm

I'm not done with the release notes yet, so don't put a lot of work into it. When they're done, they'll go in the "current" folder on ibiblio, along with the stable version of refracta-wheezy, or somewhere other than testing. And they'll be viewable in a browser. But yeah, internal links to the sections was exactly what I was thinking. Or maybe links to other pages for some things. All will go in /usr/share/doc/_Release_Notes/.

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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by fsmithred » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:40 pm

@golinux - you can make a single html page for the release notes, and link the headings to a table of contents. The text can be easily changed later. The overall format and the headings will stay (mostly) the same.
Thanks!

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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by golinux » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:44 pm

For access to these docs from links on the refracta site and wikipedia, they need to be posted independently of their location in the refracta file hierarchy/iso. The formatting of those pages is also likely to be different.
I have worked on the markup of the refracta site. The original markup totally sucked and is still only marginally cleaned up. Here's the revised index page and here's a documents page which you may or may not want to use. It can be expanded to link to videos if they ever happen or more howtos etc.
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by golinux » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:50 pm

> fsmithred wrote:@golinux - you can make a single html page for the release notes, and link the headings to a table of contents. The text can be easily changed later. The overall format and the headings will stay (mostly) the same.

OK. I'll get on it later. It's easy to change text once the layout is set.
*edit* Started to work on it and the 'outline' of the release notes is not quite making sense to me. Would you be offended If I moved things around a bit?
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by fsmithred » Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:42 am

What do you want to move? Keep the passwords where they can be seen on the first screen. I thought the language info should be near the beginning, too. Other than that, I guess it is a bit disorganized. Go for it. Stuff can always be moved again. It's not like we're using typewriters and paper.

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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by golinux » Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:07 am

Here's a rough format of the release notes that will give you a idea of how it could look. There are still a lot of inconsistencies but I wanted to get some feedback before I go further.
Some things don't make sense to me . . .
?? What's the cut for??

> --- CUT ---

Not grokking this at all.

> [[NOT - You can watch flash video in iceweasel,]] or you can download the file THIS DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT FLASH!!! using download helper and save it in your home folder. Then play it with gnome-mplayer. You may need to allow javascript for the website that you're on, or for other websites in the noscript list before the download helper icon becomes active.

Or this

> (see /usr/share/doc/[refracta2usb | snapshot2usb]/readme.txt ***********

Is there a ' missing?

> (Alternate: 'vncviewer remote-host:0)

<mountpoint> wouldn't print in html even with <pre> and <code> tags. I had to add spaces like this to get it to work < mountpoint >. OK?
etc/refractainstaller.conf is missing on my squeeze install. Haven't been on refracta wheezy to check there.
I'm sure there’s more but it's bedtime . . .
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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by nadir » Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:39 am

--- CUT ---
yadda
yadda
yadda
--- CUT ---
is probably something like:
<code>
yadda
yadda
yadda
</code>
or

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  `yadda`

[a|b]
a or b
readme.txt is to be found either in /usr/shar/doc/refracta2usb or in /usr/share/doc/snapshot2usb/
&lt;mounpoint&gt;
Not that it would matter ...
As far i can tell.
Truth to be told: the only thing i care for is username and password[s]. So i would put that right at the top (it happned more than once that i downloaded and then couldn't find both.
The [[NOT - ...
is a good one.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Refracta wiki project

by fsmithred » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:35 pm

What he said. (Nadir answered all correctly.)
Do this experiment - go to youtube or some other video site. Play a video. Download the file with download helper.
Try that experiment with flash plugin installed and flash plugin not installed. See if there's a difference.
I could swear it worked without the flash plugin before, but the directions I gave you just now will require that you have flash installed. (See the part that says "Play a video.")
Any parts that start with "NOT" need revision or need changes in the iso (such as enabling nonfree repo and installing stuff.) Can't say if or when that will happen.

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