Paul Abrahams wrote:
"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
Right, now when you actually click the link "xf86" under file:/usr/share/doc/susehilf/var/pac_en/KDE/X11_XFree86.html What do you see? A list of authors and files, not documentation. This is not the XF86 Web pages I am trying to reach, which is the pages shown by the URL above. Whether you can see these locally depends on whether you install the xf86html package. There is no integration of the xf86thml package into the Suse help system, which there used to be. Now try to explain the logic of this organization: Suse help-center|package descriptions english|User Interface|Desktops Where is KDE? Isn't KDE the main desktop? Suse help-center|package descriptions english|X Why is there only xfntl2 shown here? What is the point of this "User Interface" category anyway? The help center gives me the impression of a computer generated index. No intelligence. Even the Suse manuals appear to have computer generated indexes. _______________________ Christopher R. Carlen Sr. Laser/Optical Tech. Sandia National Labs