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Bug 672940 - The help button on the gtkui does not open the docbook help files.
The help button on the gtkui does not open the docbook help files.
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: jhbuild
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jhbuild maintainers
Jhbuild QA
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-27 17:42 UTC by Tiffany Antopolski
Modified: 2021-05-17 15:53 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tiffany Antopolski 2012-03-27 17:42:56 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the jhbuild ui from the overview
2. Click on the "Help" button.
3. "ghelp:jhbuild" does not point to a valid page.
Comment 1 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2012-03-27 18:24:48 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=158a97c5014c58e58fc183af8516a4133c00493b

Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 2 Tiffany Antopolski 2012-03-31 00:30:22 UTC 
This doesn't seem to work, and I think it's because jhbuild is not usually system installed but rather from git in a ~/jhbuild.  So the help files don't get installed in system files.
Comment 3 Craig Keogh 2012-08-15 01:37:28 UTC 
JHBuild displays the help via:
        gtk.show_uri(gtk.gdk.screen_get_default(),
                'help:jhbuild', gtk.get_current_event_time())

Anyone know how to get yelp to display non-installed help files?
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2013-06-02 02:14:37 UTC 
If nobody knows how to do this (I sure don't), I think we should remove the button rather than just leave it broken.
Comment 5 Andrew Starr-Bochicchio 2014-01-23 04:27:23 UTC 
To display the non-installed help files, use a helper along the lines of:

def get_help_uri(page=None):
    # help_uri from source tree - default language
    here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
    help_uri = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(here, '..', 'help', 'C'))

    if not os.path.exists(help_uri):
        # installed so use gnome help tree - user's language
        help_uri = 'jhbuild'

    # unspecified page is the index.page
    if page is not None:
        help_uri = '%s#%s' % (help_uri, page)
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-05-17 15:53:00 UTC 
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