Docs Problem on Leopard

[David Reiser]

Yelp as available in fink at the moment does work with some of the  
gnome documentation, but not all. There are some other pages that give  
displays similar  to the gnucash docs. With no changes to the fink  
gnucash2-docs package, when yelp 2.20 is used with the firefox 2  
viewer (along with a host of newer gnome supporting libraries as  
well), there is no problem browsing the docs normally.

That strongly suggests that the gnucash docs are not fundamentally a  
problem.

The problem is likely to be a mismatch between the version of gtk+  
available currently in fink and the version which yelp or yelp-viewer- 
firefox expects. And apparently the mismatch isn't severe enough that  
yelp can't run at all, but some documentation isn't parsed/displayed  
properly. Since gnucash docs did work for me several months ago, I  
think rolling back either yelp or yelp viewer might re-enable the  
gnucash docs. But I keep hoping gnome 2.20 breaks out of jail soon  
enough to make the roll back unnecessary. I don't think I could  
convince all of fink to roll it back anyway -- so it would have to be  
a custom packaging thing, which I'd really like to avoid.

The gnome 2.20 pieces probably won't be available from fink for  
several more weeks. Several hundred packages have to be modified and  
tested before they turn it loose. Gnucash works well, and finally  
having a decent printer control dialog is certainly nice. The  
modifications are mostly done, but Leopard threw several wrenches in  
the works, and there is an intermittent problem with gconf that's  
holding up the test phase.

Dave

On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:59 PM, David T. wrote:

> I am curious what you mean "Yelp from fink doesn't work...." I  
> checked the fink
> archives, and found a thread from November (I remember reading it  
> then) talking
> about Leopard compile problems surrounding Firefox, but that's not my
> experience at this time. I was able to install, configure, and compile
> gnucash2-docs and all its 35 dependencies (including firefox 2.0.11  
> I think)
> just fine. When I select the help menu items in Gnucash, Yelp fires  
> right up,
> but instead of the actual help, I get the unstyled document tree.  
> That doesn't
> sound like a yelp problem.
>
> Certainly, I can use the online version; I was just hoping to get  
> everything
> running nicely on its own.
>
> David
>
> --- David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:58 AM, David T. wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas why the Gnucash Help files load in Yelp with the error
>>> "This XML file
>>> does not appear to have any style information associated with  
>>> it...."?
>>>
>>> I am working with GC-2.2.3 installed yesterday via fink on 10.5.1
>>> Leopard Intel
>>> Mac, gnucash2-docs-2.2.0-2
>>>
>>> David
>>
>>
>> Yelp from fink doesn't work properly at the moment. It will work when
>> the Great Gnome Update (aka pangocairo-branch) goes public. It almost
>> got out ahead of Leopard, but there are a couple surprises that
>> Leopard added to the mix that have to get fixed. Gnucash works better
>> in a newer gnome.
>>
>> In the meantime:
>> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-help/help.html
>> at this instant, though, the web site is unresponsive
>> --
>> David Reiser
>> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>>
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