On 11/11/12 10:48, Robert Norris wrote:
>
> Interesting, as I've only just been looking at some of this today.
>
> Viking's help should be installed in /usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/viking.xml
> (possibly /usr/local/share/gnome/help/viking/C/viking.xml if installed from
> the source)
>
Thanks for looking into this Robert.
Help is installed in both /usr and /usr/local (as above). The /usr
version because of the package installation.
> I'm not quite sure of how the installation for the help is actually
> controlled.
>
> My Ubuntu 12.10 system works fine in opening the help. IIRC 12.04 seemed to
> work OK too.
>
> Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Older Ubuntu versions used even older
> versions Viking which have various shortcomings.
>
Kubuntu 12.10.
> Some other things you can try:
>
> See if the main help text is anywhere on your system(s) try on the command
> line:
>
> locate viking.xml
>
> The help is invoked is via this C call gtk_show_uri ('ghelp:viking')
>
> I suspect the Kubuntu doesn't support the 'ghelp' mechanism without yelp
> and/or other stuff installed.
>
>
>
> Try on the command line:
>
> yelp ghelp:viking
>
This works both for /usr and /usr/local help files. I had to install
yelp first, I also installed yelp-tools just in case.
> I note we don't check the return value of gtk_show_uri, nor the error code it
> returns. So ATM it will fail silently.
>
> I will fix this. NB There is also a small chance it doesn't use
> gtk_show_uri(), but it fails silently there too.
>
I added your modified code and this is the result:
"help is not available because: the specified location is not supported"
The directory structure and location is identical under both Linux
installations. The only difference is Kubuntu doesn't display the help file.
Does this help? I can carry out more testing if you like.
--
Regards,
Phil
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