On Saturday 07 of August 2004 04:56, Matej Cepl wrote: > And ALL (without an exception) help items in Help menus (if they are > present at all, which is not the case many times -- e.g., in kmail the > menu Help has only one item "Introduction to KMail" but it is there > twice) lead to the same message in KDE Help Center "The requested help > file could not be found. Check that you have installed the > documentation." Of course, the documentation is installed (but reading > docbook files in less is not much pleasant experience -- I would hope for > better :-), but there does not seem to be a way how to persuade KDE to > display it better.
Do you remember this ancient post of mine? I have in meantime upgraded to KDE 3.2.2 (from download.kde.org on Debian/woody) just to find out, that it is still alive and kicking -- no Helps for me. Then again from pure feeling of dispair (you couldn't imagine how difficult it is to live without help documents when you've got used to them) I googled again for the answer and found this page -- http://www.webservertalk.com/archive235-2004-5-232451.html. Then I tried to make a symlink from all subdirectories in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML (fortunately, I have just two of them there) to /usr/share/doc/HTML and suddenly MY HELP IS BACK!!! Thanks God! However, nasty questions still remain: a) How is it possible that apparently no other user of Debian/woody KDE 3.2.[12] happen to stumble upon this already? b) I have in my /etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals (see attached) dir_html=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML Why KDE ignores it? c) I compiled a program from source (krusader, if anybody is interested, Debian/woody KDE 3.2.2 package is available at http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/progs/debian/) and that one as the only one KDE application does not have Help (trying "help:krusader" in Command Prompt, because its menus are screwed us menus of all other KDE applications; but that's another story). Thanks in advance for any reply, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I am a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect `history' to be anything but a `long defeat' -- though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
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