Re: Gnome Help Browser

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On 19 Aug 2001 11:30:29 +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> [snip]
> > (3) View man and info pages.
> > 
> [snip]
> > So that takes care of getting the information into some handy format for
> > the main documentation. I would also like to make sure that info2html
> > and man2html (which are currently used by gnome-help-browser) are in
> > working and bug-free condition, since it is much easier to view info
> > pages via the current help browser than through the 'info' program (in
> > my opinion).
> 
> As it stands, at least the info2html program that shipped with Nautilus
> is, uhm, pretty crappy.  Everything ends up being displayed on one huge
> page.  While the conversion is pretty quick, displaying that page in
> Mozilla (embeded in Nautilus), or even gtkhtml, is pretty abysmally
> slow.  man2html could use a bit of work too, but at least it's somewhat
> better than info2html.

Speaking of gnome-info2html2, that was written by Sopwith, and his code 
is SCARY (if you don't believe me, look at the textfu stuff) :P

Regards,
Ali