Re: Enhancement of Gnome Help Browser

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Elliot Lee (sopwith@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > o Context sensitivity (greatly eased under a UNIX OS, thanks to the
> >   process list, lsof, etc, etc.
> 
> I don't think you want to do context sensitivity that way. The application
> program should tell the help browser what page to display, and help
> browser displays it, not the help browser using unreliable methods of
> determining the context.
> 
> -- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/

Ok. For Gnome programs this is right, I was just thinking of trying to
support older programs without code modification.

I guess it would be pretty unreliable though ;-)

Tom.
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