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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:48:11 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        "Jody B. Caldwell" <jody@calinx.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem / Fix with yelp 2.30.2_1 on FreeBSD 9.0 with Gnome Desktop 2.32.1
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1syhoL7LY14N5t16b%2B0HHWSr057hpoDMqPv-cR3xDT65g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1335511508.50990.14.camel@ribsy.private.calinx.com>
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Jody B. Caldwell <jody@calinx.com> wrote:
> Dir sir or madam,
>
> I am running Gnome version 2.32.1 under FreeBSD 9.0:
>
>> uname -a
> FreeBSD ribsy.private.calinx.com 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue
> Jan =A03 07:15:25 UTC 2012
> root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0i386
>>
>
>
> I was experiencing a problem where clicking on 'help/contents' in almost
> any application would not work and produced an error;
>
> =A0 'Unable to display help for xxxx the specified location is not
> supported'
>
>
> I was finally able to fix this problem with information I found at a
> Linux forum:
> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=3D90&t=3D77196
>
>
> Based on that information, I Created the following patch file:
>
> --- /usr/local/share/applications/yelp.desktop =A0 =A0 =A02012-04-27
> 02:05:35.000000000 -0400
> +++ yelp.desktop-20120427 =A0 2012-04-27 02:34:44.000000000 -0400
> @@ -195,13 +195,14 @@
> =A0Comment[zh_TW]=3D\xe9\xa1\xaf\xe7\xa4\xba GNOME \xe8\xaa\xaa\xe6\x98\x=
8e
> \xe6\x96\x87\xe4\xbb\xb6
> =A0Comment[zu]=3DThola usizo nge GNOME
> =A0OnlyShowIn=3DGNOME;
> -Exec=3Dyelp
> +Exec=3Dyelp %u
> =A0Icon=3Dhelp-browser
> =A0StartupNotify=3Dtrue
> =A0Terminal=3Dfalse
> =A0Type=3DApplication
> -Categories=3DGNOME;GTK;Core;Documentation;
> +Categories=3DGNOME;GTK;Core;Documentation;Utility;
> =A0X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=3DGNOME
> =A0X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=3DYelp
> =A0X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=3Dgeneral
> -X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3D2.30.2
> +X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3D3.0.0
> +MimeType=3Dx-scheme-handler/ghelp;x-scheme-handler/help;x-scheme-handler=
/info;x-scheme-handler/man;
>
>
> I then activate the changes with the following commands:
>
> =A0 =A0update-desktop-database -q
> =A0 =A0update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime
>
> This fixed the problem for me. =A0Help now works from within the
> applications.
>
> I hope this information will be helpful to you in providing a fix for
> all users of this software.

Oops. Sorry about tat empty message.

Jody,

Thanks! I had been wanting to look into this, but just had not gotten to it=
.

Your patch makes it work again. Could you open a PR so it can be put
into the port? (If you would rather not,let me know and I will do it,
but you deserve the credit.)
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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