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On 12/04/2011 02:26 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:43:15 +1000
> Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 5 December 2011 06:17, amjjawad HOOHAA <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> So, again, please double check this:
>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html
>>> and if necessary, update this:
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Some_Java_applications_don.27t_work.2C_I_want_proprietary_Oracle_Java
>> This is the very big problem I see with having a separate FAQ to the
>> main information on the wiki. Unless it's specific to Lubuntu I really
>> don't see why it should exist on our FAQ area at all. All this does is
>> duplicate information AND reduce the number of people working on a
>> topic. This is a perfect example because the proper Java page [0] was
>> updated a while ago to reflect the changes.
>>
>> So my opinion is, unless it's specific to Lubuntu we should contribute
>> and rely on the community documentation for *Ubuntu instead of trying
>> to carve out our own little niche that will easily be out of date and
>> hard to maintain with fewer resources. (To answer your question my
>> suggestion would be to remove the java section altogether, if you HAVE
>> to have something, link to the main page for Java).
>>
>> [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java
> Couldn't agree more Jared.  Repeating the same information over and over in different places is not helpful.  Users who aren't quite sure what their problem is end up 'not seeing the wood for the trees.'  This is the sort of thing a decent index is helps with.
to me, this begs the question of why we have a FAQ at all. there's no
reason there shouldn't be an LXDE-specific section to the general
"Ubuntu" wiki as it is relevant to LXDE. how many people have you come
across that run LXDE in Ubuntu rather than doing Lubuntu? it's often a
gateway to officially making the switch.

my problem with the "main" wiki is that it is often so GNOME-centric,
it's not always apparent whether or not something is truly applicable to
Lubuntu. so if we updated it for Lubuntu, there would be ONE place to go.

always the revolutionary,
wxl/walter