GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340032
Help broken in gnome-default-applications-properties
Last modified: 2006-05-10 20:01:28 UTC
Forwarded from: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/41864 When you click the Help button in gnome-default-applications-properties, the help application starts but gives an error. Steps to reproduce: 1) Run gnome-default-applications-properties 2) Click on the help button Expected results: 1) Lots of nice information about how to set default application preferences Actual results: 1) An error dialog box pops up saying "Could not load section The section ‘goscustdoc-2’ does not exist in this document. If you were directed to this section from a Help button in an application, please report this to the maintainers of that application."
I can't reproduce the bug here. Pressing Help button opens Yelp with the right content (well, maybe a bit old...). I'm using control-center-2.14.1 and yelp-2.14.1.
Yeah, seeing it too on fedora, so it's not ubuntu-specific. control-center-2.14.1-1.fc5.2 yelp-2.14.1-1.fc5.1
It seems that now this help section has a different name "prefs-preferredapps" and the old name, kept for backward compatibility was changed from "goscustdoc-2" to "goscustdesk-2". Look at the end of this cvs diff[1]. As of the fact that on my system help works, hem... for some strange way I still have installed GNOME 2.8 documentation :/ [1] - http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/goscustdesk.xml?hideattic=1&r1=1.37&r2=1.37.2.1
Created attachment 64489 [details] [review] default-applications-help.patch Can someone test this patch, please? Thanks.
Since related to this bug, I'm reporting here that I filed bug #340057 about this section name typo.
Created attachment 64658 [details] [review] patch that compiles
Ops, I should really check all my patches before posting them, thanks Daniel :)
Luca Cavalli just committed this patch to HEAD: 2006-05-09 Daniel Holbach <dholbach@ubuntu.com> * gnome-da-capplet.c: (close_cb): update help section name. Closes bug #340032.
Patch committed to gnome-2-14 branch too.