Re: New desktop help system ?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 11:48 +0100, Pierre Wieser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I was googling searching why the help is not displayed for 
> my application, I have found [1], which states:
> 
> "The desktop help has moved to the new proposed XDG help system [...]"
> 
> Though I read both desktop-devel and xdg lists, I do not remember
> anything recent on the subject, and Google has not been my friend
> in this matter.
> 
> Could someone give me some pointers, please ? What is this help system ?
> Where is the XDG spec ? and so on...:)

The spec can be found in the xdg-specs repository:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/tree/help-system

I don't think it was ever published as HTML on freedesktkop.org,
unfortunately. And it remains unimplemented by KDE, even though
the spec was ironed out between me and a KDE developer during a
cross-desktop help summit.

However, the old help system continues to work in Yelp, and will
continue to work for the foreseeable future. So this isn't the
reason your help isn't displayed.

--
Shaun