#695300 synaptic: fails to show help if any of "yelp", "konqueror" or "mozilla" is not found

Package:
synaptic
Source:
synaptic
Description:
Graphical package manager
Submitter:
Juhani Numminen
Date:
2013-07-24 02:03:05 UTC
Severity:
minor
#695300#5
Date:
2012-12-06 19:13:17 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

In a situation when there is neither "yelp", konqueror" or "mozilla" is not
present (LXDE desktop is one), Synaptic does not show help contents from the
menu Help > Contents but instead a warning message:

What I think is the bug here is that none of Debian packages provide "mozilla"
binary, and it is very probable that if some package ships "x-www-browser" it
will support giving a local html file name on the command line.

Cheers,
Juhani Numminen

#695300#10
Date:
2013-07-24 01:59:25 UTC
From:
To:
I think we should just have synaptic recommend or depend on yelp. The
help button already doesn't work for almost any GNOME app if yelp
isn't installed; therefore many GNOME apps now recommend yelp.

If we do that, we don't even need to ship the html help in the package.

Jeremy