Bug#600055: gedit: Help fails on Xfce 4.6.2

[Steven McDonald]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.30.4-1
Severity: normal

I am an Xfce user who prefers gedit over Mousepad. Whenever I try to view
gedit's help file from within gedit (whether by clicking Help->Contents, by
pressing F1, or by clicking on Help within the preferences dialogue), gedit
responds with a dialogue box containing the following message:

  Failed to execute child process "gnome-help" (No such file or directory)

I do not have yelp (the package containing gnome-help) installed.

I think it would make sense either for gedit to have a dependency on yelp, or
else for gedit's help menu to be rewritten to have some kind of fallback should
gnome-help fail.

-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
  - docinfo
  - modelines
  - filebrowser
  - spell
  - time

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
  - glib                  
  - gtk+                  
  - gtksourceview         
  - pygobject             
  - pygtk                 
  - pygtksourceview       2.10.1
  - enchant               
  - iso-codes             3.21

Python module versions:
  - python                2.6.6
  - pygtk                 2.17.0 (GTK+ 2.20.1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.21-libre1-20100918 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                2.28.1-4           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit-common          2.30.4-1           official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  iso-codes             3.21-1             ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.30.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-6           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.8.10-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libenchant1c2a        1.6.0-1            a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libgconf2-4           2.28.1-4           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.24.2-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.20.1-1+b1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0 2.10.4-1           shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libice6               2:1.0.6-1          X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.28.1-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpython2.6          2.6.6-3            Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libsm6                2:1.1.1-1          X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6              2:1.3.3-3          X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2               2.7.7.dfsg-4       GNOME XML library
ii  python                2.6.6-3            interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-gobject        2.21.4+is.2.21.3-1 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2           2.17.0-4           Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-gtksourceview2 2.10.1-1           Python bindings for the GtkSourceV
ii  python-support        1.0.10             automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
pn  zenity                        <none>     (no description available)

gedit suggests no packages.

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