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

[Robert Smits]

On February 29, 2008 07:32:20 am Derek Atkins wrote:

> >> > 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.

I note that this question is marked as fixed in bugzilla, but 10.3 continues 
to act "broken" in this regard. I don't know whether this is because the fix 
hasn't been propagated as a patch or wether the fix doesn't work. 

I've asked, too, whether this is fixed in the alpha release for OpenSuse 11.

At this point, it's up to us as OpenSuse KDE users to batter away at OpenSuse 
to finally fix this problem, especially when this has been raised to Suse's 
attention last year. I'll do my part.

> 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.

Probably. This is in the really annoying but not ready to switch distros 
category for me right now. 




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