[GNC] the url "ghelp:gnucash-guide" does not point to a valid page, Ubuntu 22

[john]

It  has nothing to do with browsers. ghelp was a private uri scheme used by Yelp, the Gnome Desktop documentation reader. It was retired several years ago when Gnome Desktop adopted the XDG standard. We were a bit slow on the uptake and didn't change the help links until 4.12 after Yelp dropped their backwards compatibility code. Unfortunately the new XDG help: scheme uses a new directory structure so simply changing the links, which are anyway hardcoded, won't make it start working.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Nov 27, 2023, at 12:17, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:04 AM Frank H. Ellenberger <
> frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 26.11.23 um 00:45 schrieb Tom Balazs:
>>> When I click Help / Tutorial and Concepts Guide I get the error message
>>> "The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-guide’ does not point to a valid page."
>> 
>> Gnome's  help browser dropped "ghelp:" some time ago. You can try
>> "yelp help:gnucash-guide" instead, but I suspect it will fail because of
>> the different directory layous.
>> 
> 
> This would seem to imply that other browsers may have ghelp: defined?  Or
> can a user define ghelp so that it can be used?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
>> 
>> Then you should update to Ubuntu 23.10 or install GnuCash as Flatpak.
>> 
> 
> Does this help the ghelp issue, or are you just making comments about
> decisions to stay with the LTS versions?
> 
> 
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