Bug 605212 – Help functionality on Windows

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Bug 605212 - Help functionality on Windows


Summary:	Help functionality on Windows


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	evince
Classification:	Core
Component:	win32
Version:	2.29.x
Hardware:	Other Windows

Importance:	Low enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Evince Maintainers
QA Contact:	Evince Maintainers

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Reported:	2009-12-22 11:04 UTC by Hib Eris
Modified:	2018-05-22 13:43 UTC

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Description Hib Eris 2009-12-22 11:04:47 UTC

At the moment, help is not available form the help menu on Windows, because the needed functionality for this is not ported to Windows.

The problem is that Evince uses a gnome specific 'ghelp:' protocol that is not working out of the box on Windows. 

I do not think it is worthwhile to port this protocol to Windows. It might be better to wait for (or help) the freedesktop.org project to come up with a cross platform solution (and implement it in gtk?). Hopefully, that could integrate nicely with the windows help system.

Comment 1 Hib Eris 2010-01-29 12:34:07 UTC

Idea: point to http://library.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/

Comment 2 Hib Eris 2010-04-15 13:20:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Idea: point to http://library.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/

Implemented this idea: http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=bd26e60016e9e08c1784ee2d90695cc7eeb7daee

Leaving this report open because offline help is still not implemented.

Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:43:20 UTC

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