Re: [Evolution] Linking to Help topics

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 12:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Frequently the best answer to a question on this list is to refer to
> Evolution's built-in Help, but doing so means laboriously copying the
> instructions for getting to the right topic.
>
> It would be useful to be able to provide direct URLs to these Help
> topics. I know they are on the web, but getting to them is an
> entirely
> separate process from looking at the built-in Help.
>
> Possible alternatives:
>
> 1) Have "internal" links directly interpreted by the Evo Help widget.
> Downside: links would only be useful when running Evo.
>
> 2) Use conventional URLs and assume the user has a web browser.
> Downside: URLs embedded in emails could become out of date if the
> Help
> database changes.
>
> Does anyone else think this is something worth pursuing?

#1 sounds like additional maintenance costs. I'd prefer #2 as I don't
plan any bigger user docs changes, however that's not great either due
to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/library-web/-/issues/50

andre
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