Re: help system

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:26:09 -0200 schrieb Paul Pogonyshev:

> Hi.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way of providing a context-sensitive
> help in a GTK+ application?  I don't want to depend on
> GNOME if possible.  On the other hand, I'd like the help
> to be consistent with GNOME if that is installed.

I've this problem also in a project. At configure time I try to detect
if Gnome (gnome-help; yelp) is installed and if so I install all data
that is needed for gnome-help. If it's not detected I install the to
HTML converted docbook data and display it into a browser. But there're
still some problem. I found no perfect way to invoke the users "default"
browser. Currently I let him select one from a list and remember this
value.

If you like to know more about this I can send you more information. I
need a lot of time to change the autotools stuff to my special
situation.

regards
Andreas