Feature request #9483
Replace help with pages from the manual
| Status: | Feedback | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Richard Duivenvoorde | ||
| Category: | Documentation and Help | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 18075 |
Description
Translating help files in GUI is always the most painful part, and I am convinced it
is not the most useful one, as the content is often obsolete and not aligned with the
manual.
My suggestion is to:
- remove the help
- replace it with the relevant manpage, either including it or adding a link to the
manual - ship the manual together with the package (problem: shipping all the languages will
be very heavy).
Related issues
History
#1
Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 10 years ago
Duplicated in #8564
#2
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No
#3
Updated by Alexander Bruy about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
- Description updated (diff)
IMHO now addressed in master: Help buttons open corresponding web-pages.
#4
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 6 years ago
Huge improvement, thanks.
One crucial point is not fully addressed, however: when offline the user has to add the path to the manual by hand; probably it would be good to prefill the path and install the manual as an installation option.
#5
Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 6 years ago
The offline help mode is some more work:
- we need to have a download service (per language a zip of around 170Mb) and build/upload these every day fresh on something like: https://docs.qgis.org/download/3.0/en etc?
- we could create a button near the input of the settings dialog where you can add url's?
- we need to think about where to save/unpack this zip, as installs can be very diverse. A normal user for example cannot save such zip in the install dir. OR we could/should make it part of the install scripts? Packaging for Linux?
Some other issue is that a fresh profile does not link to the right url (the setting is not picked up if you do not save your settings at least once): #17670
#6
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 6 years ago
Well understood, thanks Richard for the analysis.
I suggest to leave this ticket open for future reference.
#7
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 6 years ago
- Assignee set to Richard Duivenvoorde
It seems to me that this is fixed. Please Richard decide whether to close it.