Re: [Evolution] Linking to Help topics

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 14:02 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list
wrote:
> 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 Downside: URLs embedded in emails could become out of date if the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

Sounds reasonable, though I don't understand enough of the bug report
you refer to.

poc