Re: commit -- Re: patch for help menu


Subject: Re: commit -- Re: patch for help menu
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 23:38:54 CDT


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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:

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> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, sam th wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, David Schmitter wrote:
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> > > Hi
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> > > this patch inserts a help menu, changes and hopefully improves the openURL
> > > function. Hope it works. The path of the help documents is composed by
> > > including the xx-XX string into the path, but the documentation doesn't
> > > exist for most languages yet so the browser won't find the documents and
> > > we should fall back to en-US as a default.
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> > And another one gone, and another one gone . . .
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> I just tried this out. Very Nice! A pity the gnome help browser does such
> a lousy job of displaying the html :-( Is there a way to change this to
> use netscape?

Well, my system has a BROWSER enviroment variable (currently ==
/usr/bin/netscape). We could use that. But I think the idea was
consistency with the rest of GNOME. Maybe just the GNOME build could use
the GNOME help browser by default?
           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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