[maemo-developers] Re: hildon-help in fremantle?

[From: daniel wilms]

Hi,

an additional comment regarding the help-system to avoid misunderstandings. As I said before there won't be any help-system in Fremantle. This means that any help, has to be implemented within the application itself.

There are a lot of ways how to do that, and a really easy way would be to implement it based on html. The old help system was based on gtkhtml, which could be used here as well or opening simply a locally stored html page in the browser, even though the overhead in this case might be an issue.

If you are developing in Qt it can be done quite easily by using the Qt Assistant [1]. It is definitely worth to have a look, as it provides an easy standard way for this purpose.

My suggestion would be to realise the help based on html if it is needed in some application. In Qt applications a standardised help is available.

[1] http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/assistant.html

Cheers Daniel