[5138] in testers
gnome application help system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 25 12:08:52 2002
Message-Id: <200204251608.MAA31159@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:08:48 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
In trying to get gnumeric configured to run on Linux machines, I ran into a
number of issues with the gnome help system-
In trying to look up help for one the the several gnome apps installed in
the 9.1 release (gnorpm, gtop), I get:
GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
and the help topics that should be present don't appear in the Help menu.
Setting GNOMEDIR to /usr seems to fix this- however then it launches
Nautilus as viewer, and the help topics appear, but Nautilus doesn't
seem able to render the html- it just displays the html source, in truncated
form. I verified that the html is OK because it displays fine in Netscape;
also when I invoke Nautilus directly on one of the html help pages it
reproduces the problem (html not rendered), indicating that Nautilus isn't
configured to render html properly at the moment.
Alex
