[Nautilus-list] Fix and suggested change for gnome-info2html2

["Langdale, Philip" <philipl mail utexas edu>]

Hi all,

I've been fiddling with gnome-info2html2 in my continuing efforts to get galeon up
to scratch as a gnome help browser. One thing I noticed was that gnome-info2html2
is failing to place full links in the html, it only puts the # Ref by itself. I've looked at
the code and it seems that this is a bug. The diff I've included ( not designed to be
applied ) shows a fix for it. In addition, I'm suggesting switching from using a # Ref
to a ? Query when specifying nodes. This is similar to how gnome-db2html2 works
and seems to be more logical, because if nodes are specified, only that single node
is displayed, and # Ref targets are expected to exist within the displayed document.
Mozilla will not pass a # Ref url back through to the handler and instead will try to
jump to the target in the current document, but this is impossible because only the
current node is displayed. In fact, I have not been able to find anyway to respect
node targets specified as a # Ref. I am aware that this will require a small change
to other nautilus code ( to look for a ? instead of  # ) but I think it's a sensible change
to make. Of course, I'm biased because it changes my help code from broken to
complete. :-)

What do you think?

--phil

RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/components/help/converters/gnome-info2html2/html.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 html.c
--- html.c 2001/07/11 21:31:53 1.15
+++ html.c 2001/09/13 23:54:51
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
   else
    filename = nodefile;

-  g_snprintf (tmp, sizeof (tmp), "HREF=\"#%s\"", escaped_nodename);
+  g_snprintf (tmp, sizeof (tmp), "HREF=\"info:%s?%s\"", filename, escaped_nodename);

   if (escaped_nodename)
     g_free(escaped_nodename);