Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Varii

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Dan Mueth wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Camille Bégnis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, this is my point. I find legitimate that a Mandrake fresh user can 
>>find a "Mandrake" top level category in his help browser; moreover when 
>>the books found under it cover a large spectrum of topics from 
>>installation to system admin, through KDE, gnome, etc.
>>What approach do you recommend in this case?
> 
> 
> ScrollKeeper doesn't currently provide a nice mechanism to do what you 
> want.  I'm not sure whether it should or not.  
> 
> When GNOME used Nautilus as the help browser, we had what we called
> "toplevel documents" which were listed in an XML file installed by
> Nautilus.  These documents would appear at the top of the document index.  
> This made it easy for a given distributor (such as Mandrake) to just
> customize one data file to get documents to appear in a prominent
> location.  Having it done in the help browser instead of ScrollKeeper 
> meant that only the help browser could control which are the toplevel 
> documents, instead of allowing each package to tell ScrollKeeper which 
> documents it thinks should be in the toplevel.
> 
> One option would be to hack the ScrollKeeper category list shipped by
> Mandrake and add a new category at the top called "Mandrake".  That would 
> vanish though if the user installs a non-Mandrake version of ScrollKeeper, 
> so I don't see that as a very nice solution.  It may be a stopgap solution 
> though.

The document do not vanish if the OMF file contains for instance:

<subject category="Mandrake">
<subject category="General|Linux|Distributions|Mandrake">

So that even if the "Mandrake" category do not exist in a non-Mandrake 
version of ScrollKeeper, the manual can be found under the standard 
category.
How can I modify the categories list? Is it enough to add it in 
scrollkeeper_cl.xml? SHould scrollkeeper be recompiled?

Camille.

> I prefer having a single data file installed on the system which indicates 
> which documents belong at the top.  This could be an optional 
> configuration file for the help browser or ScrollKeeper which would not 
> get written over by upgrading either package.  That would maintain the 
> top documents if the user does an upgrade.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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