Adding Content to Gnome-Help

[Matthew East]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Dougie Richardson
<dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/29 Ubuntu Privacy Remix Project <info at privacy-cd.org>:
>> We would like to add some UPR-specific content to yelp (in Ubuntu called
>> Ubuntu Help Center) on our cd, including new links on the yelp-startpage.
>> But as I am not familiar with Docbook/GNOME Doc Utils/XML at all, I have
>> some difficulties to understand which is the easiest and best way to do
>> that.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/Editing
> is a fairly good place to start, if you have some more specific
> questions then please let us know.
>
>> Maybe someone could give me an advice how to start?
>
> If you download the ubuntu-docs source and read over the above link,
> then have a look over the folder structure, you can see where each
> section fits together and append and create as needed. If you're based
> on Ubuntu then you should be able to just create your own version of
> the package and distribute it.

In order to make the documents that you produce appear on the yelp
front page, you'll also need to produce a custom made version of yelp
for your flavour.  If you get the source for the yelp package in
Ubuntu, and have a look at debian/patches/04_new_ubuntu_layout.patch
for how we do it.

Good luck!

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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