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

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Sophie,

On 2010-12-04 at 08:51 +0300, Sophie Gautier wrote:

> >> 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>

Yes, extended tips are not handled with wikihelp yet, I am currently
thinking how to do it best.

Regards,
Kendy