GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 103294
Panel notification area has no help
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Description: Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68694 for the original bug report. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-12 21:15 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
In 2.1.whatever, I get the following error when we selecting help in the notification thingie: "There was an error displaying help: Unable to find the GNOME_FILE_DOMAIN_APP_HELP domain."
I've just committed this: 2003-01-14 Mark McLoughlin <mark@skynet.ie> * Makefile.am: define PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DATADIR and LIBDIR ... So it know's where to look now for docs, but there is no docs is there ?
Eugene - Where do these docs stand?
Can someone explain what the panel notification area is?
Heh, thought so - we don't have docs. Eugene, its something akin to the status tray on windows (on the panel beside the clock) or the old status dock that used to be in the panel. It is in GNOME 2.2.
Thanks Mark. I'll be updating the UG to 2.2 soon. For the moment, maybe you could link to the start of the panels chapter: File: gospanel.xml Sectid: gospanel-1
Eugene: its a seperate applet so I assume it'll be documented seperately like all the other applets ?
I can do this if Eugene doesn't have the time.
None of the Sun team have time to do this at the moment. This applet will probably be included in the Sun package. If this is urgent, then it would be probably be a good idea to go ahead and create a first draft manual for the applet. Bear in mind though that Sun will probably need to provide a thoroughly reviewed and updated version at a later stage.
OK, I'll do something minimal this week so we've got it for 2.2. Mark, what should I call the directory? panel-notification?
Well the gnome-panel/applets/ sub-directory is called notification_area. That's as good as any other name :-)
OK, the docs are now installing in the notification-area help directory. Just need to point the help menu item there and we'll be done and happy.
John, are you going to commit these to HEAD too ? Cheers.
*** Bug 103282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I still don't have help in 2.4.
Suck. Sorry guys, I dropped the ball on this. We've got docs on the 2.2 branch, I just need to get them onto HEAD and the 2.4 branch, is that correct Mark?
I documented the notification area in the User Guide - there was not enough information there to justify an ORM. See http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/gospanel-557.html#gospanel-567. To link to this information, link to the following chapter and sect id: File: gospanel.xml Sectid: gospanel-567
So what should we use: the doc John wrote for 2.2 or the doc in the user-guide ?
John, what do you think? I think for the amount of information for this applet, we are better off to take care of it in the UG, where we document similar items such as Lock Screen, Screenshot, Show Desktop, etc.
I think the Users Guide is the right place for this.
Fixed in HEAD and gnome-2-4. Thanks.
This bug is still here in 2.4
Christian: it has been fixed by: 2003-10-20 Vincent Untz <vincent@vuntz.net> * main.c: (help_cb): use the help from the user guide. Fix bug #103294. This fix has been committed just after the release of gnome-panel 2.4.1, so it will be in 2.4.2.