Re: Making application help work for xdg-apps

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On ons, 2016-02-03 at 10:25 -0800, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> I think one downside of this approach, compared to exporting the help
> files (like we do e.g. for search providers) is that at the moment
> Yelp can search across all the installed help files, if I'm not
> mistaken.
> As far as I understand your solution would work for individual
> application help, but wouldn't allow for a global search.


True, Exporting a lot of random content outside your sandbox which will
be in the session-wide XDG_DATA_DIR strikes me as somewhat risky
though. Also the exact workings of the help system is quite desktop
specific, is it not. (I.e. it won't work for non-gnome apps.) 

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