Re: Alternatives to yelp
- From: "George Vlahavas" <vlahavas gmail com>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to yelp
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:54:26 +0300
Sorry for the late reply, but yes!
Yelp seems to be working fine with webkit! Thank you!
2008/8/12 Don Scorgie
<Don scorgie org>
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:12 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote:
> Thanks Don and Shaun for your replies. :)
>
> My issues with yelp are rather with its backends. I haven't submitted
> a bug report because I'm not sure it's a bug with yelp directly. Maybe
> you can enlighten me about it.
>
> 1. Trying to use firefox/iceweasel as backend, I can't compile it
> because libgtkembedmoz.so is missing. I think it was there in earlier
> firefox/iceweasel versions, but not anymore it seems.
> 2. It does compile against xulrunner, but it then segfaults everytime
> I try to access a docbook document. Probably a xulrunner problem
> because it used to work fine with older xulrunner versions. I'm now
> trying with xulrunner 1.8.1.14pre and 1.9.0.2pre.
> 3. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in thunderbird/icedove, and I can
> force yelp to use that when compiling, but it crashes everytime I'm
> trying to launch yelp. I know, it's not supported, but I had to try.
> 4. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in seamonkey, but I don't want to make
> seamonkey a dependency for yelp, so it's not an option for me and I
> haven't even tried.
Welcome to the world of gecko ;)
1) If you are using firefox 3, I believe libgtkmozembed.so is now called
something slightly different.
2 and 3) I've never tried compiling against XULRunner or thunderbird
4) We dropped support for seamonkey a while ago.
Having said all that, what version of yelp are you using? We only added
support for gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) in 2.23.1. There are a couple of
issues we had to resolve to fix it properly. One of them sounds like
your segfault on accessing docbook [1].
If you're willing to go all radical, there is a webkit backend to yelp
available in SVN [2], which you can try. It now seems feature-complete
and ready to go.
Cheers
Don
[1] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/yelp/branches/webkit/
[2]
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/yelp/trunk/src/yelp-io-channel.c?r1=3021&r2=3131
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> George
>
> 2008/8/6 Don Scorgie <
Don scorgie org>
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:36 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote:
>
> > Well... are there any drop-in replacements for yelp? I'm not
> aware of
> > any.
>
>
> Well... why are you looking for a drop-in replacement for
> yelp? I don't
> know any, but depending on what you want to do, there might be
> a few
> options.
> For man pages, there is xman (and man in the terminal)
> For info, there is info in the terminal
> For DocBook (GNOME manuals), I don't really know any.
>
> I'm still wondering why you want a replacement. If there's a
> problem with it,
> have you filed a bug / asked about it? Or is it missing
> something you need?
>
> Cheers
> Don
>
>
>
>
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