Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (71 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Vogdt wrote:
> Hi Packagers :-)
>
> I think we could benefit a lot from the current susehelp system if we 
> use it to integrate the package documentation into it.
>
> All what has to be done for this is:
> 1) create/reuse a desktop file containing:
> DocPath=<path_to_docu>
> X-DOC-Weight=<order-number>
> (and for packages comming with html docs and no inline viewer in the 
> application itself for example:
> Exec=susehelp <path_to_docu>
> )
>
> 2) create a directory in 
> /usr/share/susehelp/meta/<packagename>
>
> 3) place the desktop file in this directory
>
> Result: People starting susehelp (KDE- or GNOME-Helpcenter) will see a 
> link to the package documentation.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> With kind regards,
> Lars
>   
I agree,certainly less work than trying to create or include program 
documentation in our work. 
Which I think is beyond the scope of collecting educational software to 
redistribute in tested SuSE installable format.

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James Tremblay
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