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

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 6 september 2022 19:00:47 CEST schreef Frank H. Ellenberger:
> Am 06.09.22 um 06:01 schrieb john:
> >> On Sep 5, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> >> <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> Why conditional, IIRC help: is defined in yelp for about a decade.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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

I've explained the difference in my other reply. I think this is a bug in ubuntu packaging; 
they seem to ship our html format and no longer our docbook format.

Regards,

Geert