Re: Status of Help functionality for GNOME2 components

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, John Fleck wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:10:36PM +0500, satyajit  kanungo wrote:
> > Nautilus                       73078    Patch in bugzilla
> 
> The Nautilus help needs to be enabled by linking to the Nautilus chapter in
> the new Users Guide. I've added a note to the bug report to this effect.
> 
> > Control-Center                 79643    Patch in bugzilla
> > Yelp                           79482    To be re-done (as per Mikael
> > Hallendal)
> > Glade                          79480    To be re-done (as there are
> > multiple help files)
> > 
> > 
> > Unknowns:
> > - Applications having more than one xml help file.
> > 
> 
> The help API allows for multiple files by using the convention
> "ghelp:docid". While in most cases docid=appname, that is not required,
> allowing multiple help documents to be be linked from the help manual, as
> Nautilus 1.0.x did.
> 

The present chunking code doesn't know anything about the possiblity of
multiple docs (and it would be a problem to teach it to know) - is this a
problem? 

> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 

	Sander

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