Feature changed by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #305731, revision 4 Title: Remove scrollkeeper openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: We should remove scrollkeeper from the distribution and only use a rarian-based solution. This implies working upstream on migrating the modules. Also, we could make packages install their help in /usr/share/datatir/gnome-panel/help (eg), instead of /usr/share/gnome/help which is difficult to handle from a package ownership point of view. Discussion: #1: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-02-09 15:32:03) why should we? What is the advantage for openSUSE? + #2: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2009-02-09 15:59:20) (reply to #1) + A few reasons: + + scrollkeeper is unmaintained + + it requires some weird hacks in some packages to remove changes done + in /var/run/scrollkeeper because the help files have to be registered + and the "make install" step requires this (some packages provides -- + disable-scrollkeeper to avoid this but some don't) + + the omf file format is only used by GNOME + + the rarian-based format has been discussed on xdg and is really close + to what KDE is doing, so it will simplify the consolidation of help + (the first reason itself would be enough, IMHO) + Now, re my /usr/share/gnome/help comment: might not be that + interesting, since we lose the help-bundle thing. So let's forget about + this part for now, I guess. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305731