Yelp

[Laszlo Kovacs <Laszlo Kovacs Sun COM>]

Hi Shaun,

After a long break away from gnome-doc-list I have spent some time 
recently to see how online help is at the moment in Gnome. I have read 
all your emails on gnome-doc-list in the last 12 months and the Shared 
Documentation System thread on freedesktop.org.

Some of the docs guys here in Sun talked to me about some missing 
features in Yelp and I wanted to find out which parts are you focusing 
on at the moment and where/how could we join in to help.

A number of issues mentioned where the docs guys think Yelp could use 
some work are:

- index keyword search: I know Scrollkeeper inside out so I know that it 
supports index search if index markup is provided in the docs and I also 
know that Yelp has support for this, but the 2.4.0 version I am using 
does not display any index present in the docs

- search in documents: this is not supported at all, some kind of text 
indexing facility that indexes all docs and provides search though Yelp 
would be great

- printing: it would be nice to be able to print docs viewed in Yelp

- UI: it has been mentioned that the UI could use a facelift, it is not 
very obvious for me what this means, but we could work on identifying 
issues if it comes to it

- tips: this could be part of Yelp or completely independent, it would 
be useful to have the Tips window that a lot of other desktops have

- bookmarks: would be nice to be able to store bookmarks to pages

What are your plans in these areas?

I know that the Shared Documentation System thread on freedesktop.org is 
about making everybody's life simpler by getting rid of middlewares like 
Scrollkeeper. Scrollkeeper provides some functionality that people will 
need as build tools if Scrollkeeper is not present (like index and TOC 
extraction from docs). It would be good to know how and when you plan to 
move away from Scrollkeeper.

Laszlo