* Laszlo Kovacs (las...@su...) wrote at 02:29 on 11/12/00:
> Hello,
>
> This is the official announcement of the first ever Scrollkeeper release
> 0.0.1. The tarball and source and binary RPMs can be found at:
>
> ftp://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/pub/scrollkeeper/
>
> An example application called hello-world-1 is also available there
> (tarball, source and binary RPM).
>
> This version of Scrollkeeper implements proposal #3 for this project.
> The proposal itself is here:
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/6429/2000/11/50/4650283/
>
> Two things to be noted:
>
> 1. The output of Scrollkeeper is a set of XML files. They are in
> $localstatedir/lib/scrollkeeper. A patch was submitted for the new Gnome
> Help System (Nautilus, Hyperbola component) to support Scrollkeeper.
> This is the only help browser that supports Scrollkeeper at the moment.
> The patch was accepted, but the reviewers requested this release
> announcement (and tarball and RPMs) for the integration. As soon as that
> patch is integrated, the system should be fully working (I will send an
> email here when the integration happens.
Just like to point out to people that this will be disabled by default (as per
a private discussion between Laszlo and another Sun employee (Mark)). So
touting Nautilus was the 'first system to support Scrollkeeper' is slightly
misleading.
Secondly, if you decide to enable it (it would require you to #define
something in the code) realize that we not realizing the full potential of
Scrollkeeper.
> 2. In order to have Scrollkeeper working properly it's localstatedir has
> to be /var. This should be the same for any applications that rely on
> Scrollkeeper handling their OMF files. This is a general recomandation
> for any application running on Linux anyway.
Hmmm - need to verify that Nautilus conforms to this.
Regards,
Ali
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