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[Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Anthony, great work!

I agree on the need for some sort of home page. I'll put a concept page
on the wiki shortly.

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:28 +0000, Anthony Stewart wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> 
> 
> Just a quick email about the programming side. I think most of it is
> done, however, there are a few things.
> 
> 
>      1. Language system. We are testing a new dialects system. This
>         means that you need only write 1 tour for each language, then
>         the dialect system will automatically translate it. Basically
>         this means that the dialect languages shouldn't be needed.
>         Please download the new-lang-system branch and test it
>         out.When writing tours please using the main dialect, for
>         english, please use en_GB. There are several reasons for this.
>         
>         1) Less likely to corrupt tags, <font color="red">Change
>         colour</font> would translate to <font color="red">Change
>         color</font> with english as the base lang. <font
>         color="red">Change color</font> would translate to <font
>         colour="red">Change colour</font> with american english as the
>         base lang. (Although i think I have got regex to minize the
>         chance of this happening it's still possible.
>         
>         2) English english is more complex. For example, depending on
>         the context it may be programme or program, whereas afaik in
>         American it's always program. Translating from American the
>         script would have no idea which it was meant to be.
>         
>         If these are the case in other languages, Austrian German ->
>         German to German is easier than the reverse, then decide
>         between the translators of that language which you want to use
>         as the base, it really, doesn't matter, provided there is a
>         file de_DE in the dialects folder with all the translations
>         from de to de_DE. Basically if you us language ab_CD it will
>         load the tour in language ab and apply the translations in the
>         ab_CD file. If this file doesn't exist it will simply not
>         apply any dialects, which may be fine. If you decide you want
>         to use en_US as your base than that is probably fine too, but
>         it may cause some unexpected results.
>         
>      2. Bugs. If you see anything wrong with the programming, please
>         post them here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour. No
>         matter how trivial they seam, posting on the bug tracker is
>         the easiest way for us to manage them. Programmers, if you see
>         a bug, which is no assigned to anyone, feel free to assign it
>         to yourself and fix it.
>         
>      3. We have a system which allows you to regulate tour
>         progression. This has been available for a while but it not
>         being used, most likely because it is not appropriate but also
>         I don't know if it is know about. Here is an example that you
>         could put in the firefox file
>         <!-- "Requirements"
>         cancontinue = ("firefox-bin" in os.popen("ps aux | grep
>         firefox").read())
>         elsemessage = ["Firefox is not running.", "We recommend you to
>         start it before continuing."]
>         justwarning = True
>         "Requirements" -->
>         
>         cancontinue should be a boolean. This can, like the above but
>         generated in python, the above will see if firefox is running
>         or not.
>         elsemessage is the message which should be shown if the
>         condition above is not met, if you don't set a value for
>         elsewarning it will default to ["Progression Warning", "We
>         recommend you run the relevant program before continuing."]
>         justwarning should also be a boolean, if True, then the tour
>         will progress if cancontinue fails, it will show the warning
>         but carry on. If false the tour will not allow you to move on
>         at all until the condition is met. By default this is True.
>         
>      4. Additional features. If you want anything else adding to the
>         programming back-end, just ask on the IRC, if there are any
>         developers around or message the mailing list. If you want to
>         be able to do something then just ask. Some of the features
>         available are demoed in "Continue Playing -> Build tests". In
>         addition you should be able to make use of HTML5, javascript
>         and jquery.
>         
>      5. Start page. I think we need a start page, so when the tour
>         first starts, the user gets a nice friendly page. Also the
>         parents for each of the tours, Internet, Office, Multimedia
>         ect should also have pages. These should be single pages
>         though, not tours. Discuss.
>         
> I think I promised you a short email, sorry about that.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> tl;dr -> We now have a dialect system, each dialect doesn't need it's
> own tour. Please report bugs in the bug tracker. We have progression
> requirements, we have had for a while, please feel free to use them.
> If you want more features, please ask. I think we need a start page
> and a page for each of the sections.
> 
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