Re: Help system (was Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender)

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au> writes:

> Could gnome_help_display_desktop first checked an environment variable
> (say GNOME_DOCS) for the location of the docs and then default to the
> main prefix? My thinking here is that this would make it easier to
> develop new versions of the system documentation without having to
> reinstall various major packages (would could lead to all sorts of
> exciting breakages).
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a necessary idea for gnome_help_display or not.
> If it existed, you would check the env variable first and then the
> DATADIR. But rebuilding a single package into a different directory and
> running it from there is not as painful as rebuilding gnome-core or
> libgnome*, for example.

We could also easily make it a commandline argument.  That might be cool
(if not a little obscure).   However, you can always type in the full
version of the URI into the help system.  I'm not sure how useful
features like that are, as we're specifically saying that apps are not
relocatable.  Additionally, it's not an API change, so I don't care
about it now. (-:

Thanks,
-Jonathan