Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 26, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:36 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > ... >> I think that's a valid concern, but an annoying solution. I would >> rather that any updated API for opening a help page in Gnome had two >> compulsory parameters -- one for

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Sorry to come in here wildly late, but ... On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: >> ... >> - in current GNOME, what are the right "parameters" to open a help >> file? (i.e. what values does gtk_help_show() need to open a g

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:36 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Sorry to come in here wildly late, but ... > > On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > > - What sort of information does the Mac help system need? > > ... > > > > Help buttons in Mac

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:10:26PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > I had a random thought at the summit; what if we add a new library in > the stack (perhaps shipping with GLib or GTK tarball, I don't know). > Call it libgapplication. It would contain: > > - GApplication > - GSettings >

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Shaun McCance wrote: > - What about other GTK+-using desktops, like XFCE [...] At present we don't really have a help system. We generate HTML from our docbook docs, and then launch the default web browser to read them. I don't think we have any plans to move to a more "formal" help system

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Johan Dahlin
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > I had a random thought at the summit; what if we add a new library in > the stack (perhaps shipping with GLib or GTK tarball, I don't know). > Call it libgapplication. It would contain: > > - GApplication > - GSettings > - dbus main loop hooks > - ...

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, I had a random thought at the summit; what if we add a new library in the stack (perhaps shipping with GLib or GTK tarball, I don't know). Call it libgapplication. It would contain: - GApplication - GSettings - dbus main loop hooks - ... It would depend on GObject, dbus, gvfs, dcon

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Sketching out an API here, prototype attached. > > See also > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-September/msg00139.html > > Some questions: > - in current GNOME, what are the right "parameters" to open a hel

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hey, On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > - are the _with_env() flavors of these functions needed, if gtk does > startup notification itself? (gnome-vfs and libgnome have with_env > versions of url_show and help_show) The with_env() versions in libgnome and gn

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Sketching out an API here, prototype attached. > > See also > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-September/msg00139.html > > Some questions: > - in current GNOME, what are the right "parameters" to open a hel

Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-07 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-10-07 klockan 23:10 skrev Havoc Pennington: >3) dlopen gnome-vfs and call its code for this Does not sound like a good idea since gnome-vfs is soon to be replaced by gio iirc... mvrgr, Wouter -- :wq mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

2007-10-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, Sketching out an API here, prototype attached. See also http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-September/msg00139.html Some questions: - in current GNOME, what are the right "parameters" to open a help file? (i.e. what values does gtk_help_show() need to open a gnome help f