GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 76651
The help sections buttons point to need to be updated
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:31 UTC
Description : An error message pops up when help button from the gnome panel properties is selected. Reproducibilty : Always Steps to reproduce : - Right click on the gnome edge panel and select properties. - Click the help button. An error message "Help document panel/panelproperties not found" pops up.
Not sure if this is caused by the same problem that causes a blank yelp when I launch 'panel manual.' Is there some silly path problem or something that could be causing this, jfleck?
This looks like it's trying to make an old-style help call and probably needs to be converted to the new API.
*** Bug 77127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
John: its not using the old style help api. We just need to update what sections all the help buttons point to in the docs ... if you grep for panel_show_help you'll see that they're pointing to sections in the old docs (I think) I don't know what the new sections are - could you update ?
Per discussion in telephone meeting this morning with John Sheehan et. al., the Sun docs people will be coming up with a list of the help section id's needed for this and forwarding to Satyajit.
Creating a patch to pass the section ids to the help callback. Fixed the help for "Panel Manual", "Logout button" , "Lock Button" "Status dock" , "drawer", "Launcher" in panel. Shall fix the help for the rest soon. This patch fixes bug 73691
Created attachment 7899 [details] [review] proposed patch
FYI - I'm not comfortable dealing with this patch - perhaps this should be reassigned to a hacker?
*** Bug 81010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It was observed that the 'Help' dialogue box is not shown with relevant informations when we select Logout from the panel. Steps to reproduce: 1. Select Action->Logout. 2. Select Help button. It doesn't show any thing. Source was built on 14th May 2002 in CVS Head.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82308 ***
Sorry, not 82308 dup
Recreating the patch to get the help documents and point to correct section ids in the document. A little about the patch : The panel_show_help() is modified to read the documents from the central "user-guide" location.(The documents will appear there soon) Link for logout,launcher,drawer,lock buttons are changed to link the help to the correct section in the help document present under "user-guide".
Created attachment 8720 [details] [review] Update patch to get the help documents from the "user-guide"
Applied the patch and checked it into the cvs. Please test with the latest gnome panel source from cvs. Marking as resolved as the patch is already in cvs. Please reopen the bug if you have any issue.
Tested on July 4th sources with Bugzilla and Sun patches applied. The problem is not reproducible. Closing the bug