Re: Documentation?

cga wrote:

> but then.. we've heard this so many times..  if you don't like the  
> doc.. (or absence thereof..) stop whining and go make your own.. and 
> nothing happens..


Hmpfff...  Not a bad idea really.  I'm not a tech writer, but I like
to think I can write with some clarity, not that I don't have more
than enough other stuff going on.   But in doing the work to document
WM I'd learn a lot about it I don't know, and that would be a GOOD thing.

I'm working on my own `IX desktop implementation and plan to make
WM a major part of it.  Anyone out there willing be a sounding board
for questions I have?

>
> maybe the problem is that writing quality doc - and keeping it 
> up-to-date - involves considerable amounts of time and energy and 
> there is just no incentive. 


When I was running Redhat 9.0, I spent about 3 days figuring out how to
take WM from source and integrate it into GDM, etc.  I wrote up a "cookbook"
approach.   But when Fedora came out, the cookbook was no longer correct
and I still haven't figured out the details around GDM, etc, under Fedora.
And of course Fedora keeps changing every few months, going from Core 1
to Core 2 to Core 3...

Russ
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