Re: GNOME Help Method

[infirit <infirit gmail com>]

Op 02/15/2017 om 12:01 AM schreef infirit:
> Op 02/14/2017 om 11:29 PM schreef Sascha Manns:
> > actually i'm working on a new GNOME-App.
> > The codebase is already done. Now i would like to implement a small
> > method, which launches yelp with the installed apps helpfiles.
> > The app is prepared in Mono with Gtk-Sharp. 
> > Maybe anyone can help me with a C# method for the help system?
> Short answer, you launch a help:// uri and have it handled by whatever
> provides a desktop file for the uri, typically this is yelp.
>
> Longer answer, The docs are either in docbook (not recommended these
> days) or mallard format installed in <distro docdir>/yourappname [1].
> Then have your app launch the uri relative to the docdir [2]. If you
> want to integrate this with your autotools build system see [3]. Several
> tools are available to help you create and edit the pages [4].

I need to correct myself, the proper uri these days is help:yourappname.

And I may have gotten your question wrong.. To launch the uri just use
something like

|gtk_show_uri but then the C# equivalent. An example for this can be
found in gedit source [5]. ~infirit [5]
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/gedit/gedit-app.c#n221 |