Old user-guide in Natty?

[Matthew East]

On 15 April 2011 13:32, Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 08:19 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>> The problem we have here is that several application help buttons link
>> to the old user-guide for their help. And if the upstream maintainers
>> have fixed this in Gnome 3, that doesn't help us, because Ubuntu ships
>> Gnome 2 versions of many of these applications.
>>
>> Shaun - is there any kind of redirect we can use to solve this?
>
> You could probably create a symlink in /usr/share/gnome/help from
> user-guide to gnome-help (or natty-help or whatever, not sure what
> the plan is for the doc ID). That'll get you an effective document
> copy. Not a true redirect. Things like local overrides, bookmarks,
> and read-later links won't follow the redirected-to document.
>
> But even with that, page IDs aren't going to match. So instead of
> a "document not found" error, you'll get "page not found".
>
> There's not really a good solution here.

It sounds like the only solution to avoid breaking the help for these
applications is to add the user-guide to the branch alongside the
gnome-help documents. I'll give that a try.

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Matthew East
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