[Sugar-devel] French Help Activity

[David Farning]

This might be a ridiculous question....

Are the strong reasons for maintaining a help activity rather than
just pointing users to a pdf of the help/manual file which is opened
with the standard pdf reader?

I just wonder if the extra effort in maintaining localized help
activities is worth it at this point.  When we have more resources it
might be worth it.

david

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S)<LLASKE at c2s.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Gary, hi Tomeu,
>
> I've just explored the Help.Activity directory.
> Your answers perfectly make sense for me.
>
> We target 0.82 so I just need to repackage the zip file with the localized content to have a working French Help Activity.
>
> Thanks a lot for your "Help" ;-)
>
> Best regards from France.
>
>        Lionel.
>
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Gary C Martin [mailto:gary at garycmartin.com]
> Envoyé : vendredi 12 juin 2009 15:41
> À : LASKE, Lionel (C2S)
> Cc : Sugar Devel; Tomeu Vizoso; localization list olpc
> Objet : Re: [Sugar-devel] French Help Activity
>
> On 12 Jun 2009, at 11:27, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 21:42, LASKE, Lionel (C2S)<LLASKE at c2s.fr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> But of course, we want to go further. Since the last SugarCamp
>>> Paris, we
>>> dream to build the Help activity in French.
>>>
>>> I know there was already a talk on the Help activity recently on this
>>> mailing list but it was more about maintainability issue.
>>>
>>> My point of view is slightly different today: is there a way to do
>>> quickly a
>>> "one shot" build of the Help Activity in French ?
>>
>> I think that should be doable, have you already looked the sources? It
>> may be a simple matter of changing the html files and the bundle id,
>> then rezipping. See here for more info about bundles:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Activity_Bundles
>>
>> I'm not sure who is maintaining Help right now. Would be good to hear
>> other opinions.
>
> I'm not sure what version of Sugar Lionel is targeting, but I've just
> tested Help-10 on 0.84 (in SoaS and sugar-jhbuild), and it currently
> fails to launch due to changes in the  new version of hulahop.
>
> If Help-10 is just to run on 0.82 builds you should be able to get
> away with just replacing the html content inside the Help bundles
> folder (called help). Just to be non-standard with the rest of the
> world, the default start page seems to be called "help/
> XO_Introduction.html" but it is defined on line 35 of helpactivity.py
> so if needed you can change it to point to some other start page.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> Any suggestion will be welcome.
>>>
>>> Best regards from France.
>>>
>>>                 Lionel.
>>>
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