Re: PATCH for help-browser

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Martin Hawlisch wrote:

> Attached you can find a patch for the GNOME help-browser (latest CVS
> version from HEAD branch).
> What it does is the following:
> Currently in toc:ghelp only packges are listed that put a index.html file
> into their subdir.
> Some apps like gnumeric and gnomecal do have helpfiles but not a
> index.html.
> I modified toc2-ghelp.c that generates the entries to also read the
> topic.dat file and extract the first helpfile name.
> My extension is basically a cut and paste from toc2-ghelp.c and the
> gnome-app-helper.c files.
> 
> Hope you like it.
> 
> ... Or shoud we force the apps to install a index.html file?

Can your patch do 'link to index.html if it exists, else use topic.dat'?
This would be nice as sort of a fallback in gnome-help-browser, even
though all apps should install an index.html file.

-- Elliot
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