Context sensitive mallard topic display

[Matthew East]

On 11 May 2011 16:24, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 05:31 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:05 +0200, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/11/2011 04:57 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think we're conflating two different ideas here. You're talking
>>>> about having a help button go to a specific page. That's absolutely
>>>> doable, and we've been doing it for years. Click some help buttons
>>>> in Nautilus and see where they go.
>>>
>>> This is the single case I was referring to. I know of no help buttons
>>> that
>>> launch Ubuntu Desktop Help topics.
>>
>> Well, I don't know what you're doing in any Ubuntu-specific
>> code, but the GNOME code you ship does do this. It has been
>> since before I was even around. Here's a list of applications
>> I happen to have open right now that have help buttons that
>> point to specific pages: Evolution, Epiphany, Terminal, and
>> Empathy.
>>
>> GNOME's been doing this since the inception of the ghelp URI
>> scheme, which dates back to at least GNOME 2.0.0. I'm kind of
>> surprised people don't know this.
>>
>
> So, I think the point is that Ubuntu (native) apps don't use this, as far as
> I know, and they could. It, used judiciously, might benefit the user
> experience and bring them to Ubuntu specific docs.

Some do it for main help pages (jockey, usb-creator, etc) but even for
those Gnome and Ubuntu applications that do use it, I think your point
is that they could be pointing at different pages depending on the
area of the application that is open.

Shaun's idea for allowing help authors to tag pages with tags that
would already be registered with the applications is quite a neat idea
I think.

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Matthew East
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