On 10/01/25 15:13, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Björn Bidar <bjorn.bi...@thaodan.de> writes:Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svob...@gmail.com> writes:Following a discussion on emacs-devel, several people suggested that GNU Guix may be a a good way to contemplate this distribution mechanism, for obvious GNU-related reasons.As a side note, at the Guix Days Fringe of FOSSDEM almost a year ago, we had a session dedicated to Guix documentation. I asked around how people read the manual – via `info` or in the html – and everyone responded 'html'.Is there a GUI info viewer besides Emacs and KDE Helpcenter? I think that's part of the reason why the answers where 'html'.
Last year, I think, I tried KDE Help (on Guix), tkinfo (on Debian) and GNOME Yelp (on Guix). The first two didn't work, I don't remember the errors, but they blocked my exploration. As for Yelp, I can relate to Ricardo's comment below. So I agree with Björn.
And that's a shame, because I think info is very useful and should be available to a wider audience, not just terminal and Emacs users.
There is Yelp, which has support for Info manuals, but it's not particularly pretty, awkward to use, and in many aspects worse than just HTML in a browser.
For what it's worth, people have asked the Yelp project for better support for info manuals before, but there doesn't seem to be any progress:
Allow to navigate man and info pages from within yelp https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/186 And there's a new request that could help too: Support locally-installed HTML documentation generated from Texinfo https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/220
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