Context sensitive mallard topic display

[Kyle Nitzsche]

On 05/11/2011 05:31 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:05 +0200, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>> On 05/11/2011 04:57 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
>>> I think we're conflating two different ideas here. You're talking
>>> about having a help button go to a specific page. That's absolutely
>>> doable, and we've been doing it for years. Click some help buttons
>>> in Nautilus and see where they go.
>> This is the single case I was referring to. I know of no help buttons that
>> launch Ubuntu Desktop Help topics.
> Well, I don't know what you're doing in any Ubuntu-specific
> code, but the GNOME code you ship does do this. It has been
> since before I was even around. Here's a list of applications
> I happen to have open right now that have help buttons that
> point to specific pages: Evolution, Epiphany, Terminal, and
> Empathy.
>
> GNOME's been doing this since the inception of the ghelp URI
> scheme, which dates back to at least GNOME 2.0.0. I'm kind of
> surprised people don't know this.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>

So, I think the point is that Ubuntu (native) apps don't use this, as far as I 
know, and they could. It, used judiciously, might benefit the user experience 
and bring them to Ubuntu specific docs.

Cheers,
Kyle