Re: Yelp fails to display DocBook files

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:35 +0300, Red Blue wrote:
After updating Gnome from 2.8.2 to 2.12.3 (from Debian amd64 Sarge to Etch
packages, as well as bunch of other stuff), Yelp no longer displays Gnome
DocBook help files and spits "There is no default action associated with
this location." instead. It shows the Help Topics menu structure and for
example man pages, but apparently doesn't even attempt the DocBook2HTML
conversion to display Gnome's own help files.

What can be done to troubleshoot this?

Sorry for the late reply. gnome-list has just gotten too much
for me to watch lately.

This happens when MIME types aren't working correctly on your
system. Run this command:

gnomevfs-ls /usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/C/

(Replace /usr with your installation prefix as neceassary.)
If the files aren't being reported as text/xml, then Yelp
will think it doesn't know how to read them, and will call
whatever external program is registered for that MIME type.

Later versions of Yelp (2.14 and up, I think) also allow
application/xml and application/docbook+xml. We had some
issues with MIME types changing out from under us in
shared-mime-info.

--
Shaun


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