Re: Is there any documentation for meld?

[Grant Edwards <grante visi com>]

On 2009-07-28, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> 2009/7/29 Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>:

>> I've been using meld for some time, and have figured out most
>> of the features.  But now I'm stuck: I can't figure out what
>> the red dot on a folder/file icon means.  There doesn't seem
>> to be a man page (at least not on Gentoo), "Help/Contents" has
>> never worked,
>
> Assuming that you have yelp (the Gnome help viewer) installed,

Ah.  I don't use gnome, so I don't have yelp installed.

> there's no reason it shouldn't work. Can you provide some
> details? a traceback maybe?

$ meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "//usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 772, in on_menu_help_activate
    misc.open_uri("ghelp:///"+os.path.abspath(paths.help_dir("C/meld.xml")))
  File "//usr/lib/meld/misc.py", line 67, in open_uri
    gtk.show_uri(gtk.gdk.screen_get_default(), uri, timestamp)
gio.Error: The specified location is not supported

It seems like that might be considered a missing dependancy in
the Gentoo ebuild.

>> and I can't find any documenation on the Meld web site.  So
>> I've got two questions:
>>
>>  1) Is there a manual or any documentation?
>
> Yes - it lives in the main meld tree under help/C/meld.xml
> (the English version), or where ever that installs to on your
> system.

I'll try installing yelp.  It looks like that's going to
require docbook/sgml stuff be installed as well.  The XML
appears to be docbook format, so I don't suppose there's a PDF
or HTML version that could be downloaded?  I've never had much
luck with docbook/sgml stuff, but perhaps yelp will take care
of it.

>>  2) What does the red dot mean.
>
> It indicates that the file/folder is newer (i.e., has a more
> recent mtime) than its counterpart.

Thanks.

-- 
Grant