Re: dhelp exposure

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Christian Marillat wrote:

> >>>> "ACPI" == Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> writes:
>
> ACPI> Greetings,
>
> Hi,
>
> ACPI> When I started to use Debian, a few really neat features grabbed my
> ACPI> attention, from the packaging tools to documentation centralization.
> ACPI> Most pertinent to this list, I really like the way Debian's menu
> ACPI> system makes it into every window manager and desktop environment
> ACPI> around, e.g. it is included in the GNOME main menu, so newbies like my
> ACPI> new grad students can quickly come up to speed on all of the wonderful
> ACPI> applications installed in the system.
>
> Good idea. Gnome 1.4 will use scrollkeeper. From the README :

Wow, that sounds like a next-generation cross-platform dhelp plus net docs!  Very
cool!

I think I like dhelp for now because it brings in all of the registered docs on the
system, and is in place now, in woody, and earlier releases too.  Maybe there will
be a doc-base to OMF converter and scrollkeeper register to replace dhelp in the
future, but I don't think scrollkeeper will have lists as comprehensive as dhelp
until then.  So I'm still willing to do the patches I described, if package
maintainers are interested, though perhaps I should wait until the GNOME 1.4
packages arrive...

Thanks for the scrollkeeper info!

-Adam P.

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