Re: Yelp fixes for Mallard

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 22:30 +0200, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> Shaun,
> 
> 2009/8/10 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> > I've just made some commits to Yelp to fix some Mallard
> > issues.  First, I made Yelp able to find Mallard documents
> > from ghelp URIs.  If the document foo is installed under
> > /usr/share/gnome/help/foo you can use ghelp:foo to get the
> > document.  (This respects XDG_DATA_DIRS, by the way.)  To
> > get the page bar, use ghelp:foo#bar.  There's currently
> > no way to scroll to a section in a page using a ghelp URI.
> 
> regarding this: I tested it with jhbuild, and it's not picking up
> Mallard docs, but the docs are in /opt/gnome2/yadayadayada. Is it
> because of that? It needs *exactly* /usr/share/gnome/help/APP.
> 
> Opening the docs from the command line works just fine, images included.

Is XDG_DATA_DIRS set?  I'm pretty sure it needs to be set
for plenty of other things to work, such as icon themes.

Yelp should be looking in ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}/gnome/help for
a directory with the specified name.

--
Shaun