Re: Rarian and Yelp

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus FreeBSD org>]

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Don Scorgie wrote:
> Requested update...
> 
> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 19:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 18:53 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote:
>>
>>>> Yes, this appears to be working fine.  What happens is rarian goes
>>>> through each of the omf subdirectories, and adds an entry with a ghelp
>>>> name of the subdirectory name (dp->d_name).  So, if my omf subdirectory
>>>> contains:
>>>>
>>>> eog     gnome-terminal
>>>>
>>>> I get two rarian doc entries with ghelp names of "eog" and "gnome-termial".
>>> So, rarian-example prints out the entries properly?  Or are you watching
>>> the list get built in Rarian itself? [1]
>> I hacked rarian to print out a line for every .omf file it found and its
>> associated ghelp name.
> 
> I fixed Rarian to correctly handle this as of latest SVN.
> 
>>
>>>> I've done some more research here, and I found that when I launch yelp
>>>> via another app (e.g. eog) it is passed a ghelp URI in the format (via
>>>> libgnome):
>>>>
>>>> ghelp:///usr/local/share/gnome/help/eog/C/eog.xml
>>>>
>>>> Yelp breaks this down to "///usr/local/share/gnome/help/eog/C/eog.xml"
>>>> and passes that to rarian.  Rarian fails to find any documents since all
>>>> of its ghelp names are just the appid.
>>>>
>>>> Since our libgnome is fairly stock, I'm really not sure how this mapping
>>>> works successfully on Linux.
>>> Okay, that's a failure of the new resolver.  It should check the ghelp
>>> uri to see if it's a full path before invoking rarian.  I'll fix that
>>> soon.
>> Excellent!  Thanks.
> 
> This has now been fixed in latest SVN.

I meant to reply to this a while ago.  After the latest rarian and yelp
updates, all is working well with GNOME help on FreeBSD.  Thanks!

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome FreeBSD org
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