Gnome Help doesn't quite work

[fmw]

Hi everyone,

after finally resolving the [thread=26001]libproxy/libnotify[/thread] issue that was giving me a major headache, I noticed that I can't get to the Gnome Help system from the Help menu of any Gnome application; I get an error message along the lines of

unsupported location

or some such (it's German). From the System/Help menu at the top of the screen, I can get at all documents.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Frank

 

[SergeySL]

Hi! I have a similar problem with Russian help. Have you found a solution?

 

[SergeySL]

To solve this problem you need:
1. Аdd

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ghelp

to /usr/local/share/applications/yelp.desktop
2. Run

update-desktop-database

 

[fmw]

That's not bad already, however, that only invokes the general help, not the page specific to the application from which help is opened. For me, anyway.

 

[SergeySL]

Similar situation. Context-sensitive help is not working. So far have to use the search built-in Help.

 

[ahavatar]

I have the same problem on my FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE with a updated port tree. Any help menu of a Gnome application does not work.