Feature proposal: New, Standard Documentation System

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 21:51:42 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 12:53 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Trond Danielsen wrote:
> > Last time I checked both man and info pages are available though the
> > gnome yelp browser. That already provide a convenient and searchable
> > interface for both experienced and inexperienced users.
> 
> Check again. :)
> 
> This seems to be broken on F10 at least, and possibly F9 as well -- it
> has been a while since I checked on F9.  Matěj filed this bug earlier
> today: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473257
> 

It works, more or less. Try entering 'fdisk' in the search entry. It
shows the man page just fine. It doesn't work perfectly for all man
pages, but then man pages are not exactly structured documentation that
is friendly for indexing or reformatting...






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