On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:04:02PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > Please take a look at the screenshots here: > > http://www.geocities.com/miles_lane/ > > These are shots of the Help system bundled into VisualStudio.NET. > There are several things I like about this system. It relies > on Explorer's ability to have plugged in rendering code and UI > code. The help system appears to be implemented as a set of > UI extensions that get loaded into Explorer when it is launched > with certain flags and is pointed to XML and other files that > define the UI presentation (where things get docked and so on) > and the content structure. The other nice thing about this > implementation is that it means that for a given help context, > only the needed UI widget code gets loaded, reducing memory > footprint and providing maximal flexibility. > > Is anyone up for implementing a similar system for Gnome? > > Our current help browsers are way too under-featured and > inflexible. Some of these features I would definatly like to see in DevHelp (which is more similar to the VisualStudio.NET document browser. I think though that some of these features are just being "in the way" in an ordinary helpbrowser and makes it more complex then it needs to be. I would of course see it possible to merge the general helpbrowser with DevHelp but I'm not sure that it makes sence (at least not in the timeline of GNOME 2.0). Regards, Mikael Hallendal -- Mikael Hallendal micke codefactory se CodeFactory AB http://www.codefactory.se/ Office: +46 (0)8 587 583 05 Cell: +46 (0)709 718 918
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