Re: Gnome Help Browser

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:07:31AM +0300, Ali Abdin wrote:
> 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

Oh, yeah! I've read that code. The important thing is to remember that
it was probably 0.2% faster after he'd made thoe changes. :-)

They don't call it Soptimisation for nothing.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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