Bug 23553

Summary:	gnome-help-browser can't find info pages
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Steve Holland <sh1>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.0
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Description Steve Holland 2001-01-07 20:50:17 UTC

gnome-help-browser from older versions of RedHat created a configuration
file in the .gnome directory called "GnomeHelp", which includes the line:
infopath=/usr/info:/usr/local/info
With RH7.0 the info files have been moved to /usr/share/info, and
gnome-help-browser overrides its internal path default with the
configuration file and can't find the info pages.

Workaround: ln -s /usr/share/info /usr/info

Solution: gnome-help-browser should automatically append its default
path to any user specified path. It also should not write such data
to the configuration file unless specifically requested by the user

Comment 1 David Lawrence 2001-01-08 15:29:49 UTC

Have verified this to be true in the test lab on a stock 7.0 box. Also verified
that the suggested fix does in fact solve the problem. Changing status to
assigned.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2001-02-02 00:01:18 UTC

Will be fixed in gnome-core-1.2.4-5