Michael Lake wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On 21 Sep, Michael Lake scribbled:
> > -> Turns out it help pages for Enlightenment. The E menu item "Help"
> > -> doesn't work with my Debian setup for some reason so I never found the
> > -> Interestingly the menus in Eterm don't do anything either (E 0.16.3)
> >
> > this would be the result of bad packaging. the help entry works when
> > you get E from us. Rememebr distributions - nearly all, have a bad
> > habit of taking e and "destryoing it" - reducing functionality,
> > removing bits and resulting in it not working as intended by the
> > authors. in the case of debian i think they made the help docs a
> > separate package that does not get installed with enlightenment as a
> > requires - it's optional - and IMHO that is just plain wrong.
I'm using exactly the same Enlightenment version on Debian Potato at
home, and everything works fine, including the help. I don't remember
the help docs being in a seperate package, and I can't see anything in
the debian packages list to suggest that this is the way Debian has
packaged it.
I just installed it with apt-get, and it just worked. I did install it
over 2 months ago (I installed potato during the freeze), but I've run
the obligitory "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" a few times since and
the E packages have never been upgraded, so I must be using the same
version as is in the current stable release.
> In fact I looked for separate documentation on the dist CD's but its not
> included (well not under enlightenment-docs or something sensible). I'll
> visit E's Home and downloan the latest from the Creator :-)
I don't know why the help isn't working, but I'm sure that you do have
it.
Do you get any messages on the console X was started on, when you try
running Help from the menu?
Matthew
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