[Bf-docboard] Page Update (Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Installing Blender/Linux)

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It's not the amount of text added to this particular page, it's about 
ensuring that information is added consistently and cleanly throughout 
the wiki. I'm more interested in having an easy to follow standard than 
anything else since adding in bits and pieces leads to more questions 
and work. e.g.

- If someone includes the specific info from this page somewhere else in 
the wiki, will we know to update it when it changes (see below Gnome 
3.4-->3.6)?
- Why are the instructions for Ubuntu 11 based on the GUI, but Ubuntu 12 
are based on the CLI? Is it because Gnome is different?
- If so, shouldn't we be listing Gnome or Window manager versions rather 
than distro versions?
- Are the instructions for Ubuntu 11 correct if a user has upgraded 
their version of Gnome?
- Since some distros offer mutiple versions of the same DE/WM, which one 
do we provide info for?

Most distros that I know of are sitting somewhere around Gnome 3.4-3.6. 
Oddly enough, in 3.4, ALT+Click is the default for moving windows, while 
Super+Click is the default in 3.6.

Plus there are distros are still offering Gnome 2 in their repositories 
since Gnome 3 hasn't been terribly popular. There is also the Cinnamon 
fork of Gnome that is packaged for a number of distros (e.g. Mint, 
openSuse etc). Mint looks like it will, if it hasn't already surpass 
Ubuntu as the most popular distro. Will there be instructions for it as 
will? I doubt that new linux users will know that Cinnamonn is a fork of 
Gnome.

Having said all that, I'm not completely against mentioning the issues, 
but I think it will save us work if we either address it generically 
(e.g there's an issue, consult the relevant docs which can be found at 
this link etc) or through Kesten's ideas. After all, it's hard enough 
keeping up with and documenting the changes to Blender let alone other 
software as well. ;-)

Cheers
Fade

On 19/12/12 16:34, Knapp wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Kesten Broughton
> <solarmobiletrailers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> it does seem inelegant to have os and windowmanager specific stuff sprinkled
>> throughout the wiki.
>> However, it's very frustrating when an instruction set doesn't work with
>> your flavor distro.
>>
>> What about having a "platform specific issues" section and then general wiki
>> pages could link with "there are some __platform_specific_issues__".
>>
>> The platform/wm specific section could be organized by major section and
>> would hopefully but mostly empty.
>>
>> Another option would be to direct the reader to the Discussion tab for the
>> given page, where less formal, less maintained, but still useful material
>> could be tossed around.
>>
> I think these are good ideas but the reality is that we are talking
> about 6 sentences. It is not like every distro has different problems
> unless we are talking about compiling.All the distros are the same
> once you have Blender installed. The windows managers are the only
> thing that really changes much and with these we only have about 4
> really popular ones with most of the problems coming from the distros
> made for newbies and that again mostly means Gnome or maybe KDE. It
> seems like like a big fuss for very few lines. I think the current
> page is good.
>