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Hello Ilmari, *,

I would be happy to help too, but I'm afraid, I have no much time even
in the next 2 weeks at least.

But it would be great to see one of my pet bugs goes before 6.3 freeze
arrives:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92825

What can I do (even with little time for now) for achieving this?

BTW: How is your work with the shell script ongoing?

Am 12.05.2019 um 19:42 schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas:
Currently most of the help content referring to menus is incorrect and
has been for years. One reason for this sad situation is that due to
ancient structural decisions, it is outrageously difficult to adapt
the content to changes.

Here is the story in a nutshell:

1. The help system is architected. Repetition in content related to
menu items is avoided by clever structuring (hooray! the savings!)
2. Content is added, references to menus spread far and wide
3. Menu item locations are changed in a massive redesign operation,
making the help content obsolete

The pain is mostly caused by assumptions that certain menus of certain
modules are identical. Impress and Draw are the most problematic in
this regard.

Then we have the "how to access" pages with increasingly mixed
content. Consider the one for Edit menu, which now contains wonderful
entries like "Choose Edit - ImageMap in Writer and Calc or Tools -
ImageMap in Impress and Draw" or entries referring to a completely
different menu like "Choose Tools - Bibliography Database" and "Choose
View - Navigator".
https://helponline.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/shared/00/edit_menu.html


We need a system, where the help content concerning the location of
menu items is automatically generated from the menu bar definition
files. If shared information on menus is desired, it needs to be
produced automatically.

The reason I add l10n list in Cc is that I want to raise awareness of
the current situation. Having incorrect information translated into
nearly 200 languages just multiplies the number of negative
experiences. Translators cannot fix this on the level of strings, it
needs to be dealt with structurally. It would be great, if members
from the stronger translation teams (de, fr, id...) would participate
in the current manual effort on fixing the menu help information.

Here are a few patches from me that show, how the changes can be done:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/68830/
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/71436/
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/71703/

If people get interested, I can offer assistance.

Ilmari

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Kindly Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Sophia Schröder
www.libreoffice.org
German Language Team
Help Files Debugger
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