[GNC] "Help"

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 2:14 PM Chris Miller via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> On my Fedora system I installed the gnucash-docs package: "yum install
> gnucash-docs", and that did exactly what you'd expect. When I tried to read
> any of them, I got nothing. The reason is my system was configured to use
> the "KDE Help Center" application, which didn't understand DocBooks, among
> other things. I needed to use the GNOME Help Center, "Yelp", which
> understands DocBooks. That works.
>
> There is one more trick. It is worthwhile, at least for GnuCash to make
> that the default. "xdg-mime default yelp.desktop x-scheme-handler/help". I
> suppose it might be worthwhile to produce "gnucash-kde-docs" and
> "gnucash-gnome-docs", unless somebody smarter than I am know how how to do
> both with one installation. I think it is just a matter of rendering the
> DocBooks into something KDE understands and updating the gnucash.desktop.
>

I don't currently have a KDE installation running, but you might try
installing a KDE package or two that implements docbook rendering.
According to a post I found (from 2011) the packages were called
docbook-xml and docbook-xsl

HOWEVER I believe the process of creating the gnucash-docs package builds
multiple versions of the same content, so if I recall correctly, when you
install the docs package you get the docbook source documentation plus the
same content rendered as pdf and html formats PLUS translated versions of
the same content in several languages.

Note you can download (or view) ALL of the the documentation versions and
translations (built from the same sources) on the website:

https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml



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