Re: Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:09, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> On 20 mar 2003, jstrand1@rochester.rr.com wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote:
> >>I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in
> >>general. And a few things just plain didn't work . . .
> >
> >Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport?
>
> I'm using the gnome2.2 backport currently avaiable from
> ftp.acc.umu.se.
>
> >If gnome2.2, I'd like to know what doesn't work for you or what is
> >missing-- maybe I can fix it. Everything is working great for me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> The problem is that no entry for the Gnome user guide shows up
> anywhere in the hierarchy of documents that is available when I start
> yelp.
>
> I have since narrowed this down a bit--there is no entry when I'm
> using the Norwegian locale, but it does show up when I set the locale
> to C. In other words:
>
> $ LC_ALL=no_NO.ISO-8859-1 yelp
>
> results in a yelp which does not contain a entry for the user guide,
> but
>
> $ LC_ALL=C yelp
>
> does. I think that's very peculiar, particularly since most of the
> documents are in English, even in the Norwegian locale.
>
This must be a gnome bug in general. Do you know if Norwegian is
supported in gnome2 in general?
> Apart from that, yelp is unbearable slow--it can take anything up to
> ten seconds from when I click on an entry to the document shows up in
> the window, and that's on my 512MB Athlon XP 1800.
>
I haven't seen this problem. Have you apt-get upgraded lately with my
mirror? I wonder if the locale en_US would be any faster for you?
> Yelp always insists on opening a ridiculously small window when I
> start it. At a guesstimate, it covers less than a sixth of my
> 1600x1400 screen and I have to resize it every time.
>
I have noticed this too-- probably could modify the menu entry with the
--geometry flag. Should remember it though-- sounds like upstream bug.
> I have also found a number of bugs in the scrollkeeper documentation
> system:
>
> gs234@belldandy:~$ sudo /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper
> xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost: Failed to resolve host 'scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net' - Non-authoritive host not found or server failure./usr/share/omf/evolution/evolution-no.omf:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd";
> p://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
> ^
> xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost: Failed to resolve host 'scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net' - Non-authoritive host not found or server failure./usr/share/omf/evolution/evolution-C.omf:2: warning: failed to load external entity "http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd";
> p://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
>
> Also, most of the files in /usr/share/omf/gnome-applet contain
> hardcoded references to /home/james:
>
> gs234@belldandy:/usr/share/omf/gnome-applets$ grep home *
> battstat-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/battstat/C/battstat.xml"/>
> battstat-ja.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/battstat/ja/battstat.xml"/>
> cdplayer-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/cdplayer/C/cdplayer.xml"/>
> cdplayer-ja.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/cdplayer/ja/cdplayer.xml"/>
> char-palette-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/char-palette/C/char-palette.xml"/>
> char-palette-ja.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/char-palette/ja/char-palette.xml"/>
> command-line-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/command-line/C/command-line.xml"/>
> drivemount-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/drivemount/C/drivemount.xml"/>
> geyes-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/geyes/C/geyes.xml"/>
> gkb-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gkb/C/gkb.xml"/>
> gtik2_applet2-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gtik2_applet2/C/gtik2_applet2.xml"/>
> gweather-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gweather/C/gweather.xml"/>
> mixer_applet2-C.omf: <identifier url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/mixer_applet2/C/mixer_applet2.xml"/>
> gs234@belldandy:/usr/share/omf/gnome-applets$
This is definitely a packaging bug. I will look into it. Thanks for
finding this.
James
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