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

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Are those tags XML tags? Was just thinking what about an XML based help 
system. I have seen programs that have the web based files but they are 
stored on the local machine.

On 12/4/10 6:51 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
> 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
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