GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605249
Manpage for GNOME Shell
Last modified: 2010-02-09 23:20:22 UTC
Created attachment 150251 [details] manpage The attached file has been sent to the Debian BTS, contributed by Marcelo Vieira, please consider its inclusion =).
This looks like a good start on a man page. It needs a little updating, and I think I'd probably replace the introductory paragraph taken from live.gnome.org with the description I've used for the Fedora RPMS: GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience. My only question for the contributor (if you could pass this back to them I'd appreciate it), is if they would mind if I removed the text "This manpage was written by Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal) <metal@alucinados.com>" from the man page itself - I'm sure that the man page will need various updates over time, and I'm not sure credit or blame for some future version should be assigned to a single person. I'd leave the copyright notice in the source file, and Marcelo would get credit in the GIT history of course!
Created attachment 153182 [details] [review] manpage hi Owen, attach you will find a git patch with your suggestions. Cheers,
Many thanks! Committed with the following minor changes: - Lined wrapped the very long lines - Added a better description for --sync - Resorted the command line options to group them roughly by function.