Re: netscape as help viewer

[László Kovács <laszlo kovacs sun com>]

Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> can anyone confirm that they can reproduce the same problem? If so, it
> is *bad* and I'll file it is a bug...
> 
> In gnome-1.2, you could choose Netscape (or any other browser) as your
> help viewer, in "URL handlers" section of control-center. In  Gnome
> 1.4 (Ximian release), when I enter "netscape '%s'" as ghelp url
> handler and try to access some help page (by clicking a "Help"
> button), I get netscape window with URL like
> 
> ghelp:/usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-terminal/C/index.html
> 
> and naturally, netscape gives error message saying "can't access
> server ghelp" or something like this. If I edit URL to replace "ghelp"
> by "file", everything is OK.
> 
> This means that basically, my only choice as help viewer is Nautilus -
> and it is way too slow on my system to be used for everyday work
> (takes about 15 secs to load a help page). Or the old GHB - which has
> its own problems.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this bug? Or shed some light where this might be
> coming from - is it  a problem in gnome-core? gnome-libs?
> 
> Sasha

I certainly remeber this being discussed and then probably implemented.
It comes from gnome-core as far as I know, but this is just frm my
recollections related to what was discussed.

Laszlo