Re: Help Browser

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:04:19AM +0200, Torben H. Nielsen wrote:
>> When a user wants some help, help_manual_callback() in app/commands.c
>> makes a call to netscape.
>> 
>> But what happens if there is no souch binary. Dia should either have
>> the browser binary pointed out in the makefile or it should be possible
>> to change this in the preferences.
>> 
> For me it runs my Gnome default manual browser, galeon (I've compiled
> Dia with Gnome support). I'd love to know how it's done.

For the Gnome version, the menu item is merely 

  GNOMEUIINFO_HELP("dia"),

This picks whatever default Gnome has and the relevant doc files.  For
non-Gnome, we have to do things by hand.

-Lars

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