Re: Help suckage for GNOME2 ..continued

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

tis 2002-03-26 klockan 17.51 skrev Dan Mueth:
> 
> On 26 Mar 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 
> > tis 2002-03-26 klockan 09.07 skrev satyajit kanungo:
> > >   Hi  All
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Great to see that someone looks into this.
> > 
> > Wouldn't the easiest solution be to as Satyajit suggests, let the
> > applications just have one entry in there Help-menu that fire's up Yelp
> > with the Content-view up showing the help document for that application.
> 
> I thought we were still aiming to have flexibility for multiple possible 
> browsers, even though we ship Yelp as the default GNOME help browser.

Yes of course, the application would be using gnome_help_display ()
which would do something and then call gnome_uri_show (...) which will
look in GConf which browser are to handle ghelp:-uri's.

> > I think it's a little stupid that libgnome should parse the
> > scrollkeeper-data too. Or if it should, the scrollkeeper-parsing should
> > be moved into libgnome and Yelp should be calling functions in libgnome
> > to get the Content-tree (a little late for this move of functionality
> > perhaps). But I think that might be a nice solution, since letting all
> > help browsers parse the scrollkeeper-data directly is imho a bad
> > solution.
> 
> Does libgnome currently interact with ScrollKeeper?  My memory of
> Jonathan's specification was that for GNOME 2 the URI resolution was done
> entirely by internal mechanisms and not through ScrollKeeper.

If I'm not mistaken libgnome does parse the TOC-files from ScrollKeeper
so that applications are to be able to have the TOC in there Help-menu.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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