Re: jrb's help ideas

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

m_ 2001-09-03 klockan 23.09 skrev Gregory Leblanc:
> On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 15:34, David Merrill wrote:
> > Philosophically, it seems entirely right that the help system should
> > be powered by a *server*, not compiled by a *client*, and that that
> > server should be a relatively low level system function, and not
> > implemented in the gui.
> 
> Philosophically, I agree with you 100%.  However, time is -very- short
> for GNOME 2.0, and I don't think we've got time to do this before then. 
> If I had my way, the XSLT implementation wouldn't be in the help browser
> either, but it doesn't look like we'll even manage that.
> 	Greg

I also agree, though I don't think that this server should be limited to
serv HTML. It should be able to serv some XML-based format that can be
used in the help browser and HTML too, if you want to use a
html-browser.

But I agree with greg's other posting that we are indeed a graphical
desktop and therefor can make some assumptions about how the users will
use the help system.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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