l10n process, en_US version, Help files

Sophie gautier.sophie at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 04:50:30 PST 2013


Hi Caolán,
Le 18/12/2013 11:19, Caolán McNamara a écrit :
[...]

> 
>> * About the help files
>> - I always wonder why there is a Help button on a new dialog when no
>> help file is appended ;)
> 
> One thing that we could with the new .ui file format is to confirm if
> each dialog actually has a help entry for it. There is an easy hack at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67350 to extract out the
> new-format helpids from the help and determine if they actually exist.
> That would weed out typos where the help gets detached from the thing it
> documents.
> 
> Similarly someone could script if each new-format dialog has a help
> entry and make a list of stuff that is missing help and turn those into
> a list of tasks to document those things.
> 
> Another thing that could be automated is to generate a skeleton help
> page from a new-format dialog. i.e. generate the help ids bookmarks for
> the interactive widgets, buttons, checkboxes, etc. and have fill-me-in
> headings and bodytext.

Thank you very much for your suggestions. Would your two last
suggestions fall also under easyhacks or is it something more
complicated to code?

Kind regards
Sophie



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