Re: "Ask GDP" sort of question (can 'o' worms)

["David C. Mason" <dcm redhat com>]

Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> As for context-sensitive help, I understood that the idea was that
> the hackers put in little markers into the code, so that each situation
> you find yourself in has a number, and you write the help for each
> one and it gets linked in. By someone. Somehow. (*Handwave*). Um. It 
> reminded me a little of the way that strings are marked for translation 
> into non-English languages. But I don't know whether that's actually 
> what will happen..?


For this... each widget, or item that receives context sensitive help
gets an id. There is a script that is run on the code which will
generate a 'map' file. Within this map file the hacker or writer then
matches the id of the widget to the id of the XML file created for
that app.

This XML file is a very small set of tags that are all based on
docbook tags so no relearning is necessary.

None of this will be possible until the post 1.2 gnome-libs get
enabled and ready to use.

Thats the skinny.

Dave
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