Re: Help Please with Help and Documentation

[Budge <ajebay errichel co uk>]

On 28/02/16 22:12, David King wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 2016-02-26 18:08, Budge <ajebay errichel co uk> wrote:
> > I have now upgraded my machine to openSUSE LEAP 42.1 and installed
> > Easytag 2.4.0 from repo.  I didn't see any documentation in the repo and
> > F1 doesn't bring up help. I am very rusty and need to revise before
> > using Easytag in earnest.  I recall there were some tutorials as well as
> > help. Could somebody give me some guidance please?
>
> There has not been a tutorial included with EasyTAG with some time, but
> there is now the user help, which should have been shown with F1. As
> nothing was shown, it suggests that you do not have Yelp installed. It
> was probably not clear to packagers that Yelp should be installed, so I
> clarified this in the README, and warned during the configure process:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/easytag/commit/?id=4df33c1f7b719ea59d9a054b009ec2217b261b8b
>
>
> It would help if you could file a bug against the package in your
> distribution, and to request that Yelp is added as a (possibly optional)
> dependency of EasyTAG.
>
> I made this a bit friendlier to users by falling back to the online help
> if Yelp fails to start:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/easytag/commit/?id=3dbfd06126c259d163541b2b49d937df3692266d
>
>
> Even though it is preferable for the user to use Yelp (it views the
> installed help files corresponding to the user's language automatically,
> among other things), it is possible to view an HTML version of the help
> online:
>
> https://help.gnome.org/users/easytag/stable/
>
> Please let me know if you see anything missing from the user help.
Hi David,
Many thanks.  Yelp installed and all seems well.  I use KDE desktop but 
always happy to employ gnome components.  Just couldn't change old 
habits with new installation!!!
Regards,