gnucash 2.2.1 problems (and solutions)

[Randall Wood]

On 23 Oct 2007, at 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-10-22 21:48:17 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>> How are the help files handled? gnucash uses yelp, which needs  
>> mozilla,
>> seamonkey, or firefox to display the help. That could be where the  
>> firefox
>> dependency arises.
>
> Couldn't yelp use a generic command to open files in a browser, so
> that the Aqua version of Firefox can be used for instance?

Yelp needs a Gecko engine from somewhere that will render in an X  
window.

> BTW, yelp doesn't depend on firefox/iceweasel under Debian. It depends
> on libxul0d, which could mean that it is just a XUL application, but
> this is definitely not Firefox.

The Mozilla developers have been pretty emphatic about not supporting  
their products on X Windows on Mac OS X. Firefox is the only Gecko  
platform we push that does X Windows...


Randall Wood
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