[5150] in testers
Re: gnome application help system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat May 4 09:40:45 2002
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 09:40:42 -0400
Message-Id: <200205041340.JAA20092@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200204251608.MAA31159@astrophel.mit.edu>
> 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
What do you mean by "In trying to look up help for..."? How are you
accessing the help system?
I can reproduce this by running gtop, at any rate. The fix should be
simple but hackish.
> 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 can't reproduce this part. If I set GNOMEDIR to /usr and run gtop,
it runs gnome-help-browser for the help topics and they display just
fine.
If you're accessing the help system through gnumeric, perhaps it is
doing its own screwing around to make Nautilus launch instead of
gnome-help-browser?
