Unable to use security editor to enlist new stocks for Dhaka Stock Exchange

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Feb 29 10:32:20 EST 2008


Robert Smits <bob at rsmits.ca> writes:

> On February 28, 2008 07:38:50 am you wrote:
>> Robert Smits <bob at rsmits.ca> writes:
>> > On February 26, 2008 06:52:32 am Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> It's not our fault people don't read the docs.  And changing the
>> >> interface from the correct one just because people can't read
>> >> docs just does the interface a disservice.  I'm sure that for every
>> >> one person that asks about this there are a hundred who just figure
>> >> it out.  We should cater to the silent majority.
>> >
>> > I really must respond to this. For years, now, on many distributions the
>> > installation of GnuCash does NOT result in being able to read the help
>> > files. You, Derek have been very helpful to me personally and I
>> > appreciate it, and so has this listserve but the standard install - at
>> > least for opensuse - doesn't install the help file. Please don't blame
>> > the users for not reading non-existant documentation.
>>
>> No, I blame suse for shipping a sub-standard distribution.
>> The docs work great on Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu.
>
> What exactly is it that's different with OpenSuse from other distros that 
> breaks Gnucash documentation?

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232640
It's a bug in Suse's wrapper around the help system.

>>From the users point of view, it is gnucash that's broken. If this just gets 
> ignored, as it appears to have been since opensuse 10.2, those of us on 
> opensuse just will never have access to documentation in the same way as 
> other distros.  And it will gnucash that's blamed for not working, whether or 
> not it's fair. 

Unfortunately there's really nothing we can do.  Suse's broken
script intercepts all the help calls and then breaks them for us.
I suppose we could do something like pop up a dialog whenever
you start gnucash and say something like:

   We're sorry, but SuSE sucks hairy monkey balls.  Until they
   get their act together you wont be able to see online help.
   If this bothers you, walk away slowly and pick a distribution
   that actually cares about you.  We recommend Fedora, Gentoo,
   Debian, and Ubuntu.    Have a wonderful day!

But I suspect that would just get complaints from users that this
dialog pops up every time they start gnucash on SuSE.

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-derek

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