[Glade-users] GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

Felipe Salazar wrote:
> Hi!
> I compile and install GLADE succefuly, but when I started the program it
> said:
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
>
> searching on the net I found many other programs whit the same message,
> then I undertand the reason:
>
> where is glade installed?
> (default)
> /usr/local/bin/glade
>
> where are the shared resources?
> (default)
> /usr/local/share/gnome/apps/Development/glade.desktop
> /usr/local/share/gnome/help/glade/

Yeah, it's a GNOME thing.

You either have to install all GNOME apps into the same prefix (typically
/usr), or you can set your GNOMEDIR to another prefix where you install
GNOME stuff, e.g. '/usr/local'.


(Look at gnome-libs/libgnome/gnome-util.c for the code which handles this.)

Damon