425541 - Remove toolkit help viewer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1290756

(SeaMonkey :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It was disabled by default in bug 423486, the only known user is SeaMonkey. Once they create their own help viewer (bug 424130) we can remove the toolkit version entirely.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Thunderbird is a potential user, assuming future progress on bug 253334.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Obviously), if TB wants to use it too, it could be better to keep it (shared) in Toolkit.

Comment 3

[Masahiko Imanaka [:marsf]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (Obviously), if TB wants to use it too, it could be better to keep it (shared)
> in Toolkit.
> 
In addition, any extensions that use the Toolkit.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Help_Viewer

Comment 4

[rsx11m]

> (comment #3) In addition, any extensions that use the Toolkit.

Apparently, bug 427621 was filed for that reason.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

> In addition, any extensions that use the Toolkit.
Not to mention any number of XULRunner Applications.

Comment 6

[Greg Marine]

I'm a XULRunner application developer and would like to see the Mozilla Help Viewer remain in the toolkit instead of maintaining my own help viewer. It is small and isn't contributing much "bloat."

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

As a XULRunner developer, I agree that the platform needs a usable help viewer, including TOC sidebar, search etc.. (I have no opinion about the current implementation.)

Comment 9

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

The help viewer has been moved to Seamonkey in bug 686168 and deleted from Toolkit in bug 1290756. Sorry we missed the existing bug. I am closing this as a duplicate of Bug 1290756.