Luis Felipe <sirga...@zoho.com> writes: > 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.
The KDE Help's info viewer works fine for me on openSUSE, this might be an Guix issue. > 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: I'm not sure if such efforts would be accepted, GNOME is more like my way or the highway. But on the other hand Emacs hasn't been better at times. > > 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 That's what the KDE Help does to run info2html with their documentation template applied. On demand conversion would be a much better option I think. However even KDE's docbooks are rendered similar. IMHO rendering documentation like PDF's would be better. I don't know how guix rendering would look like when it would be done similar to how Emacs renders Info pages. At least the fonts are more readable than in Emacs info viewer, which is still ok.
