Re: Making application help work for xdg-apps

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:

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.

The content would be mostly static HTML/images/etc though - why do you think it's risky?

 

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.) 

That is true - but e.g. the KDE help system uses different paths IIRC.

XDG_DATA_DIR/help is a GNOME-specific directory as far as I know.

Cosimo