Well.. It was bound to happen. It appears that gnome has decided to develop their own help browser. I am uncertain how much working between our groups can occur, since they have not been very communicative with me. I had contacted (and tried to contact) many people who were involved with gnome, and I guess they were not much impressed with the idea of working together. I have not looked at the gnome help system. I do not know if there are/will be plans to use gnome software in seul. I am very biassed. The decision will have to be made about whether to continue working on our own help system, or use the gnome help system and develop our own documents for it. If anyone has installed gnome it would be usefull if they could appraise it and its potential to make a more informed decision. Any comments? Ken Duck twoducks@globalserve.net
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¡Hola! We've now a help browser, Wow! I've some comments on it: - why having an external program, why not just a lib? - it shouldn't create a new window each time that an item in the help menu is selected. - it should have a menu/toolbar to do navigation, searchs, etc... - it should do a gtk_signal_connect for delete_event instead of destroy. - the window should be greater. About the automatic generation of topic.dat from the docbook source i think that we don't need a new tag. A simple perl script could catch the more external sections (by example, if it's a 'book' it should make a topic.dat with all the chapters.) I could do it if you think it is a good way. (i dislike the idea of adding tags...) HoraPe -- To unsubscribe: mail gnome-list-request@gnome.org with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
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