[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2011-01-15 Thread Joanmarie
Thanks Eliah. It was a somewhat rhetorical question, really. Help is borked. I know jack about gio. However, whilst poking into this a tad I noticed the following: gio.app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme() returns None for 'ghelp'. Related aside: as a check to see if I was using this method co

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2011-01-15 Thread Eliah Kagan
Unfortunately I had to wipe out the Natty system where I experienced this bug. I plan to reinstall Natty soon, and if the bug affects the newly installed system, then I'll go ahead and check to see if I'm able to bring up help inside those other four applications. -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2011-01-15 Thread Joanmarie
I'd be curious to know if you can get any gnome application help to display in Natty using the application's means (push buttons, menu items, pressing F1) for doing so. So far I've tried: * orca (aka gnome-orca) * gnome-terminal * rhythmbox * evolution In all cases it fails: gio.Error: The specif

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2010-12-29 Thread Eliah Kagan
Well, this is odd. Even though right-clicking on the GNOME Panel and clicking Help fails to bring up the "Using the Panels" help topic, running this command (which is the same command that gnome-panel executes to achieve this effect, at least on Maverick) is successful: gnome-help ghelp:user-guide

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2010-12-29 Thread Eliah Kagan
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-panel In an Ubuntu Classic Desktop session on a Natty i386 system with gnome- panel package version 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu4, right-clicking in most places on the panel and clicking Help fails, raising a message box with the title "Error" an

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2010-12-28 Thread Eliah Kagan
** Attachment added: "image of the error message box, for the trash can only" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/695260/+attachment/1778696/+files/error-message-box-for-trash-can-only.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2010-12-28 Thread Eliah Kagan
** Attachment added: "image of the error message box for everything except the trash can" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/695260/+attachment/1778695/+files/error-message-box-for-everything-but-trash-can.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 695260] Re: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed

2010-12-28 Thread Eliah Kagan
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695260 Title: gnome-panel help cannot be displayed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub