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Bug 125426

Summary:	[Help] Nagivate-Open External Javadoc to use Prefs-General-Web Browser settings
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jonathan P Moore <writetojon>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Jonathan P Moore

2006-01-26 20:37:11 EST

Please look up the setting in Preferencs->General-Web Browser to decide whether to launch an external browser or use the internal browser when the user selects Navigate->Open External Javadoc.

At the moment regardless of the choice an external browser is launched.

Many thanks

Jonathan

Comment 1 Steve Northover

2006-01-31 19:37:27 EST

I'm sorry Platform UI but I have no idea where this should go.  It's not SWT.

Comment 2 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-02-09 03:15:04 EST

This seems to work for me in 3.2 M4. What build are you using?
Can you try if checking the 'Use external browser' on the Help preference page is changing the behaviour?

Comment 3 Jonathan P Moore

2006-02-14 17:21:12 EST

I am using version 3.1.1.

Window->Preferences->Help->Use external browser checked/unchecked makes no difference.

I'll see if I can get 3.2 installed and let you know what happens.

JM

Comment 4 Jonathan P Moore

2006-02-14 17:41:04 EST

I just installed eclipse-SDK-3.1.2-linux-gtk.tar.gz version 3.1.2 M20060118-1600 and I have the same problem - Shift-F2 to open external javadoc does not fire up the internal browser even though this is selected in preferences.

Can you suggest anything else for me to try.

Many thanks

JM

Comment 5 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-02-15 02:32:19 EST

we're using help to show the Javadoc. Moving to help

Comment 6 Curtis d'Entremont

2006-02-15 11:28:04 EST

Do you have Mozilla installed? Currently we can only embed Mozilla on GTK, I believe. If we can't find a browser that we can embed we resort to always opening external. I think some distributions like SuSE default to konqueror and don't install mozilla by default.

Try this.. set your prefs to open internal and try Help -> Help Contents and see if it opens in an embedded browser window or a full blown browser app.

Comment 7 Jonathan P Moore

2006-02-15 12:45:40 EST

I have Mozilla installed as follows

mozilla -- version
Mozilla 1.7.12, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org <developer build>

on gentoo

Prefs-Help->Use extenal browser unchecked and then Help->Help Contents fires up another window which I cannot seem to dock in the main eclipse workbench screen. This window seems to be an embedded windows but not embedded in the workbench.
Prefs-Help->Use external browser fires up Mozilla.

JM

Comment 8 Adam Archer

2007-06-15 13:56:49 EDT

(In reply to comment #7)
The behaviour you described in this comment is the intended behaviour. Help->Help Contents will always open a separate window. Even if the embedded browser is selected, it will open in a separate shell, so, as you said, you will not be able to dock it. If you want to browser help in a view from your workbench you can use the help view. This is accessible by selecting "Help -> Dynamic Help" and then using the links at the bottom of the view to, for example, view all topics. You could also open the view by selecting "Window -> Show view -> Other... -> Help -> Help".

Comment 9 Chris Goldthorpe

2007-06-18 13:03:41 EDT

Closing as the help system is working as designed.

Comment 10 Dani Megert

2009-11-18 04:51:33 EST

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251789 ***