Re: Yelp fails to display DocBook files

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:35 +0300, Red Blue wrote:
> After updating Gnome from 2.8.2 to 2.12.3 (from Debian amd64 Sarge to Etch 
> packages, as well as bunch of other stuff), Yelp no longer displays Gnome 
> DocBook help files and spits "There is no default action associated with 
> this location." instead. It shows the Help Topics menu structure and for 
> example man pages, but apparently doesn't even attempt the DocBook2HTML 
> conversion to display Gnome's own help files.
> 
> What can be done to troubleshoot this?

Sorry for the late reply.  gnome-list has just gotten too much
for me to watch lately.

This happens when MIME types aren't working correctly on your
system.  Run this command:

gnomevfs-ls /usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/C/

(Replace /usr with your installation prefix as neceassary.)
If the files aren't being reported as text/xml, then Yelp
will think it doesn't know how to read them, and will call
whatever external program is registered for that MIME type.

Later versions of Yelp (2.14 and up, I think) also allow
application/xml and application/docbook+xml.  We had some
issues with MIME types changing out from under us in
shared-mime-info.

--
Shaun