[5151] in testers
Re: fontmap2 missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon May 6 12:13:24 2002
Message-Id: <200205061613.MAA21892@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 May 2002 09:22:19 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:13:22 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> So I'd be much obliged if you can put it in the release- will you be
>> able to do Sun too?
>It looks like more work would be required to be able to create a
.default.fontmap for Solaris.
>In the mean time, I'll make gnome-font-install run on Linux only (via
>the spec file).
OK- I understand the time issue. I would be nice if gnome app developers
at least tried to make it easier to install the applications on systems
that don't have all the gnome baggage.
>> 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 pull dowm the Help menu from the main window of each application and
try to pick help topics.
>> 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.
First, I deleted all my local .gnome* directories to make sure some
setting there isn't affecting what I see- there were 4 directories:
.gnome, .gnome-desktop, .gnome-help-browser, .gnome-private.
For both gnorpm and gtop:
When GNOMEDIR is not set, there is only one help menu item, an "about"
dialog box with version information. When I set GNOMEDIR to /usr, I get
actual help topics in the help menu. When I select them, Nautilus opens
with unrendered html (presumably because we don't have Mozilla). I
don't get gnome-help-browser.
I didn't set or alter any other environment variables. And this was on
our 9.1 Linux test machine.
I temporarily deleted my gnumeric installation but I think I recall the
same behavior there too- not certain though.
Alex
