Gnome docs update before Beta 2?

[Matthew East]

On 12 April 2011 14:31, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-04-12 13:44, Matthew East wrote:
>> > On 12 April 2011 12:34, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
>> >> Seeing that the ongoing work is all Unity focused, shouldn't we take
>> >> into consideration that classic GNOME will be an option also in 11.04?
>> >> One possible way to do that might be to link to ubuntu-docs - the whole
>> >> thing or parts of it - with the remark that while parts of the old docs
>> >> may be dated, they may still be more relevant to classic users.
>> >
>> > This is a clever idea. All we would need to do is to write an index
>> > page to link to the various documents present in ubuntu-docs and use
>> > it as our "classic Gnome" help.
>>
>> It wouldn't be an ideal solution, but considering that we are short of
>> time...
>>
>> Another reason to keep shipping ubuntu-docs is that docs in applications
>> may be linking to it. I just wrote a document that ended up in
>> language-selector, and it includes a link to add-applications#installing.
>>
>> --
>> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
>>
>
> ghelp links to both external docbook (<link href="ghelp:about-ubuntu">about
> Ubuntu</link>) and mallard (<link href="ghelp:banshee">Banshee</link>)
> documents are working, but there are some issues.
>
> For example, I can link to "about-ubuntu", but there doesn't appear to be
> any way to get back up to the index from there, and I can't seem to find a
> directory that would contain the "index" of the old Ubuntu-docs package (it
> might have been in /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-help/).

There isn't one. It was hard coded into yelp source code. We would
need to write a standalone index with its own directory in
/usr/share/gnome/help if we wanted to have a landing page for "Classic
Gnome" help using ubuntu-docs.

-- 
Matthew East
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