"Christopher R. Carlen" wrote:
In Suse 6.2, the Suse help system displayed in Netscape as a web interface, and it was very good--to the point. Relevant things like the man pages (as a whole list, categories, or search option), the info index, doc on XF86, etc., were right there.
On Suse 7.1 I want to find the XF86 Web pages which are installed locally. In the Suse help system, there is no obvious way to get to them. The main page of the Suse help system doesn't show a direct link to the XF86 pages, nor do I find it by following any of the links on this page. Instead most of the links take me to long lists of hundreds of items, marginally useful.
Oh here it is, file:/usr/share/doc/susehilf/XFree86/index.html which could only be found by looking up the package description, finding where the docs live, and hand typing in the URL. If I'm going to have to do this by hand all the time, why don't I just delete Suse Help from my panel?
There are certainly aspects of the SuSE help that are confusing -- notably the muddy relationship between SuSE help and KDE help. But in the particular case you're talking about, I did find a reasonable straightforward path. On the KDE2 K menu I selected the SuSE Helpcenter, then Contents. I chose to expand Package Descriptions / English, then X11, then XFree86. I then saw a list with items such as xdevel, xf86, xshared, and xmodules. Other X11 paths led to applications. I never had to type in a URL. But maybe I was lucky. Paul Abrahams