Feature #6569

Make the Tails documentation searchable offline

Added by mercedes508 2014-01-05 06:52:12 . Updated 2019-07-24 16:24:09 .

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Rejected
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Low
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2014-01-05
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Description

In the offline documentation, when typing keywords on the search field, the results are not results from the offline doc and thus are irrelevant.

The results are taken from the documentation indexed by the GNOME help system, that does not include Tails documentation.

How hard would it be to have our documentation registered and indexed too?

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Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #14962: Tor Browser >= 7.0.8 fails to render local pages correctly Resolved 2017-11-16
Related to Tails - Bug #6570: Yelp freezes while searching the offline Tails documentation Rejected 2014-01-05
Related to Tails - Bug #9900: Improve Website search Confirmed 2014-11-09

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-01-09 02:50:16

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
  • Subject changed from Fix the search feature for the offline doc to Make the Tails documentation searchable offline
  • Status changed from New to Confirmed
  • Type of work changed from Code to Research

#2 Updated by sajolida 2018-02-01 21:51:46

  • related to Bug #14962: Tor Browser >= 7.0.8 fails to render local pages correctly added

#3 Updated by sajolida 2018-05-22 13:12:12

  • related to Bug #6570: Yelp freezes while searching the offline Tails documentation added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2018-06-19 16:28:48

During the user testing of the VeraCrypt beta, 2/5 participants said they wanted to search in the offline documentation.

One said she would do Ctrl+F in a normal browser but didn’t do it. Probably because the documentation browser looks too different from a normal browser for her to believe that it would work.

#5 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-19 08:09:45

  • related to Bug #9900: Improve Website search added

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-24 16:24:09

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected

We are now using Tor Browser for the “Tails documentation” launcher. It points to either:

  • The offline version when not connected to Tor.
  • The online version when connected to Tor.

So it’s already possible to search the Tails doc when connected to Tor. I don’t think it’s a realistic goal to provide search from Tor Browser on the offline doc when not connected to Tor so I’m rejecting this ticket.

Please reopen it if you think it’s possible!