Re: GNOME Help Method

[Sascha Manns <Sascha Manns mailbox org>]

Hi Infirit,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2017, 00:11 +0100 schrieb infirit:
> 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 |
Thak you very much for answering. I'll try to implement the example in
C#.

Greetings
Sascha
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