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Bug 436991 - search only current application manual
search only current application manual
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: Search
2.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: Yelp 3.0
Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
: 399841 499601 564829 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-08 20:19 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2011-03-30 12:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Joachim Noreiko 2007-05-08 20:19:09 UTC 
I know this will be sort of obsolete with Mallard...
but sometimes I *know* I want to search only the current manual. Eg, I'm reading about Rhythmbox and I want to find something about cover art. I know it's got to be in this manual only, I just can't find it in the structure of the document.
Searching through *everything* on my system is overkill.
Comment 1 Don Scorgie 2008-01-13 20:02:11 UTC 
*** Bug 499601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 lists 2009-03-22 07:04:10 UTC 
+1.

If I click Help > Contents and am looking at the Gnucash manual, I expect it to search the Gnucash manual when I type something into the search box.

The other results could show beneath some separator or something.
Comment 3 Heinz Repp 2010-06-03 08:54:26 UTC 
+1

When looking for help with one specific program (and this is the vast majority of my yelp usage) I want to find specific information in the very handbook of this program, nowhere else. Every other GUI (Windows, KDE, Mac) help viewer searches by default only the help manual from the program it has been called. Not even being able to do so with Yelp is a major defect.

Confirming.
Comment 4 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-09-26 16:52:06 UTC 
*** Bug 564829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-09-26 16:55:24 UTC 
*** Bug 399841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Kalin Agrawal 2011-01-13 19:20:15 UTC 
When I start the help, e.g. from Gnumeric, the title of the help window is "The Gnumeric Manual, version 1.10".  I assumed that the help window and the controls were dedicated to Gunmeric.  Now I see that I was wrong.  So, I think on this normal entry to Yelp, it may seem to naive user that they are using a manual dedicated to the app that they were running -- and that searching would stay within the context of that app.

I agree that default behavior should be related to the relevant app.  However, of course, when does Yelp know that you've "strayed" off from your original starting application?  Perhaps it could use the originator of the app as the context in which it defaults to searching and presents "all" results following or as an option.  Or, perhaps default first results would use the "current" highest-level subtree of the help?