Restoring the Help Icon in gnome-panel

[Don Scorgie]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:56 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:49 +0100, Petr Tomeš wrote:
> > On 2/13/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > > The help browser is way way too slow to be usable IMHO.  I click
> > > System->Help and it takes about 8 seconds for the window to even appear
> > > and another 8 seconds for anything to appear in it.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I have similar experience about slowness of help browser and
> > furthermore I think nobody has problem go to System menu for Help.
> > 
> > Petr Tomeš
> > Ubuntu CZ - http://www.ubuntu.cz/
> 
> It seems like the rest of Gnome has had some serious performance work
> lately but this just got left out, probably because developers don't use
> it.

Actually, Yelp has recieved much love in this cycle (just look at the
changelogs from 2.12 onward if you don't believe me ;) ).  Some of it
was performance work.  Check out loading of docbook manuals.  Startup is
still slow, but thats got a lot to do with libgnome / bonobo /
scrollkeeper / mozilla overhead (which we have on the target list for
2.16.  Or at least I do ;) ).

> 
> Oh I forgot to mention on Dapper, the Help doesn't work at all - it just
> crashes as soon as it's done loading.
> 

Ye, that should be fixed as of todays update.  It was an attempt to make
Yelp accessible again, but something seems broken in atk or bonobo [1]
and so the workaround was removed.

[1]
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/30248

Don

> Lee
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