Geert,
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Geert Janssens <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:24:33 +0200
> Subject: Re: help not working
> On 25-09-12 00:05, Alex Aycinena wrote:
>>
>> With the latest build of trunk and docs, when I try to bring up the
>> help manual or the tutorial I get a message as follows:
>>
>> "The URI 'ghelp:gnucash-help' does not point to a valid page."
>>
>> Has anyone made a change recently that might have caused this to no longer
>> work?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alex
>>
> Hi Alex,
>
> That would probably me (again), with revision 22378:
> "Show help and guide in gnome independent way"
Yes I reverted to 22377 and it worked like before, then when I updated
to 22378 it failed as described above.
>
> This was done to drop the dependency on libgnome. I took the alternative way
> of showing help from the planner application. It works fine on Fedora but may
> require modifications to the way the documentation is installed. That's also
> the main reason I want to do a documentation release soon.
>
> There are several aspects that lead to this change:
> - I wanted to drop the dependency on libgnome and the old way of loading the
> help file depended on libgnome
> - I found an alternative way to show help in the planner application (also a
> gtk application), using gtk_show_uri ("ghelp:gnucash_help").
> - This did launch yelp on my Fedora system, but the help file wasn't found
> - Some research brought me to gnucash bug 688705 [1] which suggested that the
> help files were installed in the wrong location to work properly.
> - So I made some fixes to the documentation tree as well to fix the install
> locations.
>
> Those things together fixed all the issues on Fedora (where I'm using kde as
> my desktop environment).
>
> I'm curious to know what is different in your environment.
>
> What is your OS/platform again ?
I use Fedora as you do.
> Does the help command start yelp and do you get the error message in yelp ?
Yes, yelp is started and it is within yelp that the message quoted
above is shown. There is a link "Search for packages containing this
document." and when I click on it, a dialog opens asking for an OK to
install files 'index.page' and 'gnucash-help.xml' in
'/usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/C/' and in
'/usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-helpC/'. Different from both of these,
the Fedora package manager seems to have gnucash 2.4 documentation
installed in '/usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/'. But in this case, I
want the help that I've installed myself from trunk in
'/opt/gnucash-svn/gnucash-clean/share/gnome/help'. Under this
directory there are two subdirectories: gnucash-guide, and
gnucash-help. I also install documentation that I am working on in
'/opt/gnucash-svn/gnucash-working/share/gnome/help', so that depending
on whether I am calling help from a version of gnucash installed in
trunk 'clean' or from a version installed in trunk 'working', I should
get different versions. This is the way it always worked before.
>
> Geert
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661705
>
Regards,
Alex
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