commit 6c29f31e39e1209fd24e5146d386177d364ea09c Author: John J. McDonough jjmcd@fedoraproject.org Date: Sat Apr 2 16:20:17 2011 -0400
Add comment on second change for Fedora 15 from earlier
The two changes are 1) A separate .desktop file for Xfce 2) xdg-open instead of htmlview
tools/doc-publican-rpm/README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/tools/doc-publican-rpm/README b/tools/doc-publican-rpm/README index 7434963..4f806a3 100644 --- a/tools/doc-publican-rpm/README +++ b/tools/doc-publican-rpm/README @@ -17,9 +17,19 @@ The doc-publican-rpm-2.0 branch contains the code as it existed for proper working with GNOME 2.0 (Fedora 14 and earlier). The master branch continues development for later versions of Fedora, specifically for GNOME 3. + There are basically two changes. The major change is that GNOME 3 no longer supports a documentation menu. This means that the document launcher must be placed in an existing menu. In addition, this also implies a separate .desktop file for Xfce since the latter did not reduce features in response to GNOME 3. + +The second change is not GNOME related. +Doc-publican-rpm used htmlview rather than xdg-open +because xdg-open did not always behave properly prior +to Fedora 12. In Fedora 12 the file:// URI handling +was changed in xdg-open, and htmlview was changed to a +script that calls htmlview. In Fedora 15 htmlview was +dropped, so doc-publica-rpm must use xdg-open with the +file:// URI.
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