Sorry for the late reply, but yes! Yelp seems to be working fine with
webkit! Thank you!

2008/8/12 Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:12 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote:
> > Thanks Don and Shaun for your replies. :)
> >
> > My issues with yelp are rather with its backends. I haven't submitted
> > a bug report because I'm not sure it's a bug with yelp directly. Maybe
> > you can enlighten me about it.
> >
> > 1. Trying to use firefox/iceweasel as backend, I can't compile it
> > because libgtkembedmoz.so is missing. I think it was there in earlier
> > firefox/iceweasel versions, but not anymore it seems.
> > 2. It does compile against xulrunner, but it then segfaults everytime
> > I try to access a docbook document. Probably a xulrunner problem
> > because it used to work fine with older xulrunner versions. I'm now
> > trying with xulrunner 1.8.1.14pre and 1.9.0.2pre.
> > 3. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in thunderbird/icedove, and I can
> > force yelp to use that when compiling, but it crashes everytime I'm
> > trying to launch yelp. I know, it's not supported, but I had to try.
> > 4. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in seamonkey, but I don't want to make
> > seamonkey a dependency for yelp, so it's not an option for me and I
> > haven't even tried.
>
> Welcome to the world of gecko ;)
> 1) If you are using firefox 3, I believe libgtkmozembed.so is now called
> something slightly different.
> 2 and 3) I've never tried compiling against XULRunner or thunderbird
> 4) We dropped support for seamonkey a while ago.
>
> Having said all that, what version of yelp are you using?  We only added
> support for gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) in 2.23.1.  There are a couple of
> issues we had to resolve to fix it properly.  One of them sounds like
> your segfault on accessing docbook [1].
>
> If you're willing to go all radical, there is a webkit backend to yelp
> available in SVN [2], which you can try.  It now seems feature-complete
> and ready to go.
>
> Cheers
> Don
> [1] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/yelp/branches/webkit/
> [2]
>
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/yelp/trunk/src/yelp-io-channel.c?r1=3021&r2=3131
>
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,
> >
> > George
> >
> > 2008/8/6 Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >         On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:36 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote:
> >
> >         > Well... are there any drop-in replacements for yelp? I'm not
> >         aware of
> >         > any.
> >
> >
> >         Well... why are you looking for a drop-in replacement for
> >         yelp?  I don't
> >         know any, but depending on what you want to do, there might be
> >         a few
> >         options.
> >         For man pages, there is xman (and man in the terminal)
> >         For info, there is info in the terminal
> >         For DocBook (GNOME manuals), I don't really know any.
> >
> >         I'm still wondering why you want a replacement.  If there's a
> >         problem with it,
> >         have you filed a bug / asked about it?  Or is it missing
> >         something you need?
> >
> >         Cheers
> >         Don
> >
> >
> >
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