Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-01-21 14:33:02 +0100 Andreas Heppel <aheppel@web.de> wrote:

> Basically I agree, since this would make it unnecessary to install an 
> additional package just to make an app's help system available.

Well having the help viewer separated from gnustep libraries isn't necessarly 
bad,
as it doesn't interfere with the libs (who says bugs ? :) and we could easily
change of help viewer if needed... I don't know. It could be interessting to 
put a
default in order to choose the help file extension (from rtf to xlp to html for 
example,
without recompiling/patching gnustep)

> It would also make this discussion obsolete since NSHelpManager could then also 
> use this (more advanced) NSHelpPanel to display context help. I still don't 
> know whether this concept of context help will really be used by any 
> application.

I'm not very convainced of the interesst either of context help, but... :)

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