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authorSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2019-04-03 15:56:51 +0000
committerSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2019-04-03 15:56:51 +0000
commit46c92b04b02dfc910d2d332f0ae502c3685c6f52 (patch)
tree30b62728fe973c831af691e6bab3bd4b76421be9
parente29f1bc2a11c09323bb45b7167b464a354163707 (diff)
Tlmgr help info now takes alternate GUIs into account.
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@50722 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl29
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index 5d11c99628c..fcd92f3c224 100755
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -7603,6 +7603,9 @@ example, running
starts you directly at the update screen. If no action is given, the
GUI will be started at the main screen.
+Note that the new GUIs, tlshell and tlcockpit, are started up as
+separate programs.
+
=for comment Keep language list in sync with install-tl.
=item B<--gui-lang> I<llcode>
@@ -7617,6 +7620,8 @@ Polish (pl), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk),
Slovenian (sl), Serbian (sr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi),
simplified Chinese (zh_CN), and traditional Chinese (zh_TW).
+Tlshell shares its message catalog with tlmgr.
+
=item B<--debug-translation>
In GUI mode, this switch tells C<tlmgr> to report any untranslated (or
@@ -9283,16 +9288,20 @@ A summary of the C<tlmgr pinning> actions is given above.
=head1 GUI FOR TLMGR
The graphical user interface for C<tlmgr> requires Perl/Tk
-L<https://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl%2Ftk>. For Windows the
-necessary modules are shipped within TeX Live, for all other (i.e.,
-Unix-based) systems Perl/Tk (as well as Perl of course) has to be
-installed outside of TL. L<https://tug.org/texlive/distro.html#perltk>
-has a list of invocations for some distros.
-
-The GUI is started with the invocation C<tlmgr gui>; assuming Tk is
-loadable, the graphical user interface will be shown. The main window
-contains a menu bar, the main display, and a status area where messages
-normally shown on the console are displayed.
+L<https://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl%2Ftk>. For Unix-based
+systems Perl/Tk (as well as Perl of course) has to be installed
+outside of TL. L<https://tug.org/texlive/distro.html#perltk> has a
+list of invocations for some distros. For Windows the necessary
+modules are no longer shipped within TeX Live.
+
+We are talking here about the GUI built into tlmgr itself, not about
+the other tlmgr GUIs: tlshell, tlcockpit (Java-based) and, for Mac
+OS only, TeX Live Utility. These are invoked as separate programs.
+
+The GUI mode of tlmgr is started with the invocation C<tlmgr gui>;
+assuming Tk is loadable, the graphical user interface will be shown.
+The main window contains a menu bar, the main display, and a status
+area where messages normally shown on the console are displayed.
Within the main display there are three main parts: the C<Display
configuration> area, the list of packages, and the action buttons.