Re: Enhancement of Gnome Help Browser
- From: Lee Mallabone <lee0 callnetuk com>
- To: gnome-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Enhancement of Gnome Help Browser
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 00:55:54 +0000
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 07:40:16PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> > Having someone manage the whole help system project would be very helpful.
> > :-) We need work on context-sensitive help and user-annotatable
> > documentation, for example. You could also cooperate with Tom Gilbert on
> > his libGuide (nom?) project.
> >
> > -- Elliot http://developer.gnome.org/
>
> Please do ;-)
>
> Head over to
> http://wwwtomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk/libguide.html
> to see what we're up to.
I can't help but wonder if the libguide project is a little overkill. Surely
the final goals can quite easily be realised by combining the rather
excellent GnomeDruid widget with GtkXmHTML (hopefully soon to be a mozilla
bonobo component) to form a standard step-by-step guide.
If you use Glade, you don't even had to write any code/XML at all to
generate a step by step guide. And that can also be very easily linked into
a context-sensitive help system, assuming a standard way to do it is agreed
upon.
I don't mean to emit any kind of dampner on a good free software project,
but I'm interested in the views of the main developers as to how the whole
'libguide' system is superior to the existing alternatives.
Kind Regards,
--
Lee.
http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~lrpm100/
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