[GNC] help: vs. ghelp: was: Problems upgrading to 4.8a

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Am 06.09.22 um 06:01 schrieb john:
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>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>>> Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john:
>>>> This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612
>>>>
>>>> I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for
>>>> the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and help:gnucash-guide are able to
>>>> find the GnuCash docs
>>> I'm surprised the help: scheme finds the documentation in the old ghelp locations,
>>> but that's good news really.
>>> I think we best add this in for gnucash 4.12 then, and conditional on the yelp
>>> version.
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>> Why conditional, IIRC help: is defined in yelp for about a decade.
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> Because yelp v3.x (and maybe v40 and v41, I didn't have those handy to test) can't find the GnuCash docs in /usr/share/docs/gnucash-docs with help: so we have to use ghelp: on distros that are still shipping older versions of yelp.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls

 From https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/blob/master/NEWS
 > Changes in 2.31.5:
 > ------------------
 > * New "Read Later" feature
 > * Support for proposed XDG help: URI scheme
 >
They should find /usr/share/help/{lang}/…

Why do you want to unstall into /usr/share/docs/?
Also ghelp: did not recognitze that.
It used /usr/share/gnome/help/…

Regards
Frank