darktable / question mark (context help) in 5.6.0 not working

[geni1105 (Georg N)]

Continuing a concrete side thread in Another dt UI discussion:

@Phemisters

It should work. Do you get that for everything you click on, or just some things?

One setting which could affect it is in the darktablerc settings:

context_help/last_url=https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/development/
context_help/url=https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/
context_help/use_default_url=true

What URL does the browser report 404 for?

I get 404 for everything that I put the question mark on. The context help settings are

context_help/last_url=https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/5.6/
context_help/url=https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/
context_help/use_default_url=true

and the requested URL is
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/5.6/en/module-reference/processing-modules/agx/

Anybody else, or something that I would need to change?

[Phemisters (David Smith)]

It is not just you.

The problem is discussed in this issue: Point in-app help links to /development/ docs unconditionally by andriiryzhkov · Pull Request #21418 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub - not sure yet what the fix will be.

For now, I think you could work round it by changing those lines in darktablerc to point to the development version of the manual (if you do that, make sure darktable is not running when you edit the file).

I’m not seeing the problem because I normally use a self-built version so my darktablerc points to the development version.

[geni1105 (Georg N)]

Thanks for the hint!

I also use a self-built version, but from the release-5.6.0 tag, probably that’s why I have „5.6“ in my darktablerc.