Re: netscape as help viewer

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

gnome-moz-remote has what the author termed a "really bad-hacky" to deal
with ghelp URLs (by just replacing the URI scheme with "file:"), so one
must use it instead of 'netscape "%s"'.

Dan


On Wed, 16 May 2001, John Sheehan wrote:

> If I put in "netscape '%s'"  I get the problem you describe.
>
> But if I put in "gnome-moz-remote --newwin '%s'" (which is
> preset as my default protocol) for ghelp, and then click
> on help in an app it brings up netscape correctly, i.e. as
> file:/opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnome/help/gnome-terminal/C/index.html
>
> John
>
> > Delivered-To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> > From: Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>
> > To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> > Subject: netscape as help viewer
> > Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
> > X-BeenThere: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> > X-Loop: gnome-doc-list gnome org
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> >
> > 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
> >
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