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Help button of Desktop Settings UI doesn't open online help
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfdesktop
Component:
General

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Description slickymaster 2014-03-07 16:36:44 CET
Trusty box fully updated.

Steps to reproduce the bug:
Click Menu icon and navigate to Settings Manager -> Desktop.
Click on the 'Help' button of the Desktop Settings dialog.

Expected behavior:
Xfdesktop online documentation should open web browser at http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/4.11/start.

Actual beahavior:
Help button isn't triggering the expected opening of the online documentation. In fact there's apparently no click event associated with the said button.

~$ apt-cache policy xfdesktop4
xfdesktop4:
  Installed: 4.11.3-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.11.3-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.11.3-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

~$ lsb_release -a && uname -r

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty
3.14.0-031400rc5-generic
Comment 1 Eric Koegel editbugs 2014-03-09 16:35:35 CET
This isn't a bug in xfdesktop since the help button won't
work for xfce4-settings or anything that calls xfce_dialog_show_help.
The fix for that bug is http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10739
The other thing you bring up is more of a feature request - to point to
versioned docs. There's 2 commits in master for that:
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=67a8cfb24fc4131e6cd74a52901e5389cc9b6757
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=d27d14f242cbd94fcfbdf881d62c6e2b60f806a7
I pushed the 2nd commit because even if the change in xfce4-settings
never lands, the help button will continue to function. The requested
change for xfce4-settings is here:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10740
Hope this helps!
Comment 2 Eric Koegel editbugs 2014-03-19 18:26:23 CET
The non-versioned help patch was fixed
and xfdesktop now can do versioned help.
Marking resolved.
Comment 3 slickymaster 2014-03-19 23:42:00 CET
I can confirm it. Thanks for that.

Bug #10736

Reported by:
slickymaster
Reported on: 2014-03-07
Last modified on: 2014-03-19

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Assignee:
Eric Koegel
CC List:
1 user

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