On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:09, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: > On 20 mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: > >>I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in > >>general. And a few things just plain didn't work . . . > > > >Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport? > > I'm using the gnome2.2 backport currently avaiable from > ftp.acc.umu.se. > > >If gnome2.2, I'd like to know what doesn't work for you or what is > >missing-- maybe I can fix it. Everything is working great for me. > > Thanks! > > The problem is that no entry for the Gnome user guide shows up > anywhere in the hierarchy of documents that is available when I start > yelp. > > I have since narrowed this down a bit--there is no entry when I'm > using the Norwegian locale, but it does show up when I set the locale > to C. In other words: > > $ LC_ALL=no_NO.ISO-8859-1 yelp > > results in a yelp which does not contain a entry for the user guide, > but > > $ LC_ALL=C yelp > > does. I think that's very peculiar, particularly since most of the > documents are in English, even in the Norwegian locale. > This must be a gnome bug in general. Do you know if Norwegian is supported in gnome2 in general?
> Apart from that, yelp is unbearable slow--it can take anything up to > ten seconds from when I click on an entry to the document shows up in > the window, and that's on my 512MB Athlon XP 1800. > I haven't seen this problem. Have you apt-get upgraded lately with my mirror? I wonder if the locale en_US would be any faster for you? > Yelp always insists on opening a ridiculously small window when I > start it. At a guesstimate, it covers less than a sixth of my > 1600x1400 screen and I have to resize it every time. > I have noticed this too-- probably could modify the menu entry with the --geometry flag. Should remember it though-- sounds like upstream bug. > I have also found a number of bugs in the scrollkeeper documentation > system: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper > xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost: Failed to resolve host 'scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net' - > Non-authoritive host not found or server > failure./usr/share/omf/evolution/evolution-no.omf:2: warning: failed to load > external entity > "http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd"; > p://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd > ^ > xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost: Failed to resolve host 'scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net' - > Non-authoritive host not found or server > failure./usr/share/omf/evolution/evolution-C.omf:2: warning: failed to load external > entity > "http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd"; > p://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd > > Also, most of the files in /usr/share/omf/gnome-applet contain > hardcoded references to /home/james: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/omf/gnome-applets$ grep home * > battstat-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/battstat/C/battstat.xml"/> > battstat-ja.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/battstat/ja/battstat.xml"/> > cdplayer-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/cdplayer/C/cdplayer.xml"/> > cdplayer-ja.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/cdplayer/ja/cdplayer.xml"/> > char-palette-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/char-palette/C/char-palette.xml"/> > char-palette-ja.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/char-palette/ja/char-palette.xml"/> > command-line-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/command-line/C/command-line.xml"/> > drivemount-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/drivemount/C/drivemount.xml"/> > geyes-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/geyes/C/geyes.xml"/> > gkb-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gkb/C/gkb.xml"/> > gtik2_applet2-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gtik2_applet2/C/gtik2_applet2.xml"/> > gweather-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/gweather/C/gweather.xml"/> > mixer_applet2-C.omf: <identifier > url="file:/home/james/src/gnome2.2.1/gnome-applets-2.2.1/debian/gnome-applets/usr/share/gnome/help/mixer_applet2/C/mixer_applet2.xml"/> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/omf/gnome-applets$ This is definitely a packaging bug. I will look into it. Thanks for finding this. James -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
