Is there any documentation for meld?

[Grant Edwards-6]

I've been using meld for some time, and have figured out most
of the features.  But now I'm stuck: I can't figure out what
the red dot on a folder/file icon means.  There doesn't seem to
be a man page (at least not on Gentoo), "Help/Contents" has
never worked, and I can't find any documenation on the Meld web
site.  So I've got two questions:

 1) Is there a manual or any documentation?

 2) What does the red dot mean.

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[Kai Willadsen-2]

2009/7/29 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...>:
> I've been using meld for some time, and have figured out most
> of the features.  But now I'm stuck: I can't figure out what
> the red dot on a folder/file icon means.  There doesn't seem to
> be a man page (at least not on Gentoo), "Help/Contents" has
> never worked,

Assuming that you have yelp (the Gnome help viewer) installed, there's
no reason it shouldn't work. Can you provide some details? a traceback
maybe?

> and I can't find any documenation on the Meld web
> site.  So I've got two questions:
>
>  1) Is there a manual or any documentation?

Yes - it lives in the main meld tree under help/C/meld.xml (the
English version), or where ever that installs to on your system.

>  2) What does the red dot mean.

It indicates that the file/folder is newer (i.e., has a more recent
mtime) than its counterpart.

Kai
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[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-07-28, Kai Willadsen <kai.willadsen@...> wrote:
> 2009/7/29 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...>:

>> I've been using meld for some time, and have figured out most
>> of the features.  But now I'm stuck: I can't figure out what
>> the red dot on a folder/file icon means.  There doesn't seem
>> to be a man page (at least not on Gentoo), "Help/Contents" has
>> never worked,
>
> Assuming that you have yelp (the Gnome help viewer) installed,

Ah.  I don't use gnome, so I don't have yelp installed.

> there's no reason it shouldn't work. Can you provide some
> details? a traceback maybe?

$ meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "//usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 772, in on_menu_help_activate
    misc.open_uri("ghelp:///"+os.path.abspath(paths.help_dir("C/meld.xml")))
  File "//usr/lib/meld/misc.py", line 67, in open_uri
    gtk.show_uri(gtk.gdk.screen_get_default(), uri, timestamp)
gio.Error: The specified location is not supported

It seems like that might be considered a missing dependancy in
the Gentoo ebuild.

>> and I can't find any documenation on the Meld web site.  So
>> I've got two questions:
>>
>>  1) Is there a manual or any documentation?
>
> Yes - it lives in the main meld tree under help/C/meld.xml
> (the English version), or where ever that installs to on your
> system.

I'll try installing yelp.  It looks like that's going to
require docbook/sgml stuff be installed as well.  The XML
appears to be docbook format, so I don't suppose there's a PDF
or HTML version that could be downloaded?  I've never had much
luck with docbook/sgml stuff, but perhaps yelp will take care
of it.

>>  2) What does the red dot mean.
>
> It indicates that the file/folder is newer (i.e., has a more
> recent mtime) than its counterpart.

Thanks.

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[Stephen Kennedy]

>  1) Is there a manual or any documentation?
>  2) What does the red dot mean.

Hi Grant, glad to hear you figured most of it out! As others have said, there is
some documentation in the help/ folder. But to be honest it's more than a little
dry and boring. (Imagine what it was like to write it!)

If I was doing it again, I would ditch the manual and have the help
option simply
popup help balloons pointing to and describing each ui element.

Stephen.
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[Grant Edwards-6]

On 2009-07-29, Stephen Kennedy <stevek@...> wrote:
>> ??1) Is there a manual or any documentation?
>> ??2) What does the red dot mean.
>
> Hi Grant, glad to hear you figured most of it out!

I've been using meld for about 7 years now, and I think this is
the first time I felt a need for the help feature. Up until the
question about the red dots came up, everything else was pretty
obvious.

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