Bug#391172: gnomermind: Help does not open help file.
I can confirm this bug, but I do not think it is directly related to
gnomermind. Instead I think it's a bug in libgnome32.
I am not a C programmer, but digging through the gnomermind source
code, it seems that to me that when the help menu is accessed,
gnomermind calls the gnome_help_goto function, and this function uses
"ghelp" to display the help files. As far as I can tell, "ghelp"
appears to either have been deprecated or changed to "gnome-help"
and/or "yelp". If you try to manually display the gnomermind help
files with gnome-help or yelp in a terminal it works fine. The
gnome_help_goto function is in gnome-help.c and gnome-url.c, both of
which are part of libgnome32.
Googling around found a similar report in Ubuntu, which was apparently
fixed in Breezy, but I can't find a patch or how they fixed it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/23166
I also found some posts to various GNOME mailing lists that seem to
talk about this issue as well:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00020.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-April/msg00211.html
I am working on becoming the maintainer of this package and if that
occurs, I might mark this bug as closed since it seems that it's not
really a gnomermind bug, but a libgnome32 bug, though my lack of C
skills could mean my investigation and conclusions are incorrect. :-)
Chess
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