Xubuntu (Herd4) Application->Help not available

I can confirm this bug (feisty-desktop-amd64).

The help entry has been removed from the menu, because the Xfce help is not up to date at all. So this is not a bug, but a feature ;)
We need to update the Testing/{Short,Long} wiki pages.

but what about making it open the xubuntu desktop guide instead? i'd say this would be even more useful for the average user than opening the xfce documentation.

Sounds good (reopening the bug).

Fix committed in gutsy.

xfdesktop4 (4.4.1-4ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian Unstable, remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - use our xfce.mk cdbs class
    - keep 02_show_context_menu.patch, 03_special_icons_config.patch,
      10_backdrop_zoom.patch.
    - drop debian/patches/01_show-backdrop-by-default.patch.
    - Make the 'help' menu item open the xubuntu documentation (LP: #86244)
    - debian/control:
      + adhere to DebianMaintainerField
      + xfdesktop4 recommends: add xubuntu-default-settings (>= 0.10), drop dbus
        since thunar already depends on dbus-x11 for its trash applet.
    - debian/README.Debian: remove the additional paragraph which recommends to
      install dbus for the trash applet to work.
  * Use debian/xfdesktop4.manpages instead of cdbs DEB_INSTALL_MANPAGES to
    reduce diff with debian.
  * debian/xfdesktop4-data.install: do not install xfdesktop.1 in both packages,
    only ship it into xfdesktop4.

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:34 +0200

xfdesktop4 (4.4.2-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian Unstable, remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - use our xfce.mk cdbs class
    - keep 02_show_context_menu.patch, 03_special_icons_config.patch,
      10_backdrop_zoom.patch
    - drop debian/patches/01_show-backdrop-by-default.patch
    - Make the 'help' menu item open the xubuntu documentation (LP: #86244)
    - debian/patches/series: dropped, we don't use quilt
    - debian/control:
      + adhere to DebianMaintainerField
      + bump debhelper b-d to (>= 5), add cdbs & autotools-dev and drop
        chrpath and quilt
      + xfdesktop-data: bump the replaces to the ubuntu version
      + xfdesktop4 recommends: add xubuntu-default-settings (>= 0.10), drop dbus
        since thunar already depends on dbus-x11 for its trash applet.
    - debian/xfdesktop4-data.install: do not install xfdesktop.1 in both packages,
      only ship it into xfdesktop4.
  * debian/patches/00_use-button-zero-for-menu.patch,
    debian/patches/11_fix-catalan-menu-translation.patch,
    debian/patches/12_fix-italian-applications-menu.patch: dropped, included
    upstream.
  * debian/rules:
    - add DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --enable-final
    - do not delete manually the docs for xfdesktop4, cdbs takes
      care of this now.

xfdesktop4 (4.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Yves-Alexis Perez ]
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/xfdesktop4.menu: switch to new debian policy.
  * use exo-open to run terminal from menu so we respect user choice.
  * debian/xfdesktop4.postinst: use posix kill -s to avoid problems on hurd.
  * debian/rules: don't ignore all make errors at clean stage.

  [ Simon Huggins ]
  * debian/prerm: Use kill -s to keep Hurd and lintian happy at the same time.
  * debian/control: Move fake Homepage field to a real one now dpkg
    supports it.
  * Add Vcs-* headers to debian/control

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:46:59 +0100