Re: proof of a proof

hey stuart thanks, this is EXACTLY what i was looking for.  I'll submit
these changes to the publisher and hopefully it will actually get made
before print.

I'll definitely ping the list once it's on the newstands.

--klaatu

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:56:28 pm Klaatu wrote:
> > Hi all, my "friend" Seth Kenlon has written an article for a magazine
> > called Linux Identity <http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/> about how
> > everyone should run KDE on their Fedora Linux and I was thinking maybe
> > someone on this list would like to proof the proof that they sent me this
> > morning, just to make sure the terminology is correct.
>
> Nice. Particularly good to have an article about KDE software in Fedora.
>
> Now I'll start with the complaining :-) Keep in mind this is my ideal -
> I've
> been very strict with the words here - and I'm realistic that not all of
> this
> will get changed.
>
> Title: I'd prefer "KDE Software in Fedora 13" - as the people who make up
> KDE
> are not in Fedora 13 ;-) but can live with it as it is
>
> First para: "While Fedora 13 the GNOME desktop" doesn't make any sense.
> Also
> "the KDE desktop" -> "KDE software" or "KDE Plasma Desktop". There is no
> 'KDE
> desktop" or at least it is ambiguous: that could refer to Plasma Desktop or
> Plasma Netbook
>
> Second para "The first thing in KDE". KDE is people so this doesn't make
> sense.
> Try "Plasma Desktop" or just drop "KDE"  so it's "The first thing you..."
>
> Section "KDE itself":
> Better title could be "KDE Plasma Desktop"
> Then the first paragraph could change:
> "For all the useful applications for which the KDE Software Compilation is
> famous, the real power lies in KDE itself."
> ->
> "For all the useful applications for which KDE is famous, real power lies
> also
> in Plasma Desktop [or the workspace]"
>
> Figure 4 caption should be "Add a Plasma Widget to your desktop"
>
> P22 last paragraph:
>
> Better:
> "KDE Plasma Desktop also ships with a set of useful Plasma Widgets that
> you..."
> or
> "KDE also ships a set of" (remove 'with')
>
> Anyone remember the 'technical term' for the plasma blob? Desktop Toolbox?
>
> Final paragraph of article:
> "If you are just starting out on KDE" ->
> "If you are just starting out with KDE software"
>
> "KDE do the work for you" ->
> "KDE software do the work for you"
>
> "motto of the KDE desktop" ->
> "motto of KDE"
>
> Wow, that's quite a lot of stuff. As I said, I'd be delighted to see even
> *some* of those changed and that would make this article a lot more
> accurate
> than a lot that appear in the big magazines.
>
> Can you ping the list again when this get published? It might be worth a
> quick
> Dot article pointing to it, or at the very least a blog post.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>
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