[Libreoffice] The future of help [was: Re: Deleting Java from Base]

[Sophie Gautier]

On 03/12/2010 19:51, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi kendy,
>
> Jan Holesovsky wrote (03-12-10 14:52)
>
>> That one might be actually easy - when the wikihelp is online, I'd
>> default to not building the internal help at all, and instead focus on
>> converting it from the wiki version to the platform-native (Windows /
>> MacOSX / Gnome / KDE [but IIRC, KDE was able to read the Gnome's help
>> natively too]) for the releases. And cut all the help-related code ;-)
>>
>> Objections / support / thoughts?
>
> One of the good things of current Help is: when a control in a certain
> window is selected, and one hits Help/F1, the appropriate help text is
> displayed.
> I hope that can be conserved, while cutting help-related code.

Also Maj+F1 when the pointer is over an icon, displays extended tips 
which are part of the help files, these are the strings between 
<ahelp>xxx</ahelp>

Kind regards
Sophie