Making Yelp Even More Inclusive

[Matthew East]

Hi Tommy,

I'm going to include the gnome-doc guys in this, because they know a lot
more about how Yelp works than we do, and can tell you what's the
matter.

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 17:20 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:

{snip}

> I want to start out by saying that I have been using Dapper on a test
> machine and am VERY impressed with the yelp / Help that comes up. It's
> already more useful and inclusive than under Breezy, and apparently
> getting better all the time. I really appreciate having a search box,
> too, though I think its scope may need to be expanded to include more
> areas...
> 
> Here are two examples of things already installed on my hard drive I
> might be seeking but are NOT yet in yelp:
> 
> 1) xsane docs in /usr/share/doc/xsane/html/sane-xsane-doc.html
> 
> 2) imagemagick docs in /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/index.html
> 
> I gave those two examples deliberately -- (1) xsane I believe is part
> of an "ordinary" Ubuntu installation, and (2) imagemagick I believe is
> an optional install (though anyone using any level of graphics
> probably adds it VERY soon!).
> 
> I was disappointed that typing ImageMagick in the yelp search box does
> not even bring up its man page in yelp, nor do most of the ImageMagick
> commands (animate and conjure do but the others don't seem to). I have
> a lot to learn to know how the yelp index(es) get generated, but
> obviously they don't look in man-db in the same way that (the command
> line) apropos command does.
> 
> Are these things that are planned for the Yelp index / search box?
> Should I file a bug, or have I missed a whole discussion about this
> (very likely)?

Matt
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