Am Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010, um 23:35:27 schrieb Jay Woods: > On Thursday, June 10, 2010 02:39:09 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 10 June 2010 19:43:53 Mark Shelby wrote: > > > I've brought up this topic before, but was just browsing the kde > > > forums and so I'll ask it of this mailing list again: What is the > > > main reason that kde documentation cannot be formatted strictly > > > for wiki and updated by users, and available primarily via > > > internet access? > > > > > > Also what is the need to include and make available by default > > > offline documentation? Why can't the system admin (if one exists > > > for whatever size network) simply download a hard copy of the wiki > > > text and distribute it to users internally as the sysadmin and > > > users deem necessary? > > > > You clearly live in a well-populated feature-rich environment. > > Believe it or not, there are still people who have only intermittent > > slow internet access or even none at all. Without distro-supplied > > documentation they would have none at all. > > When I mash on the Help key there is only a message saying: > > There is no documentation available for /kontact/index.html. > $ kde4-config --version Qt: 4.6.2 KDE: 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3) kde4-config: 1.0
$ ls -d /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/ /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/ > It is the same for KAddressBook, Kontact Administration, KOrganizer, > Kraft, and KTimeTracker. Oddly enough, KMyMoney is present. > $ ls -d /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en//kontact-admin/ /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en//kontact-admin/ $ ls -d /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/korganizer /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/korganizer $ ls -d /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/ktimetracker/ /home/kde44/kde44/share/doc/HTML/en/ktimetracker/ Kraft has no documentation, write one or file a bug KAddressBook has a docbook draft unfinished due to input from devels, a wiki page on userbase, is in heavy transition, a bug in the application with the help button leading to nowhere (file a bug) > Where is this distro-supplied documentation you write of? Is it the > docbook out in > /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/khelpcenter/userguide/groupware- > kontact.docbook? If so, how do I read it? Using Konqueror, it looks like > email from Marco Menardi gnu at kde.org. > I open this in khelpcenter here. > This behavior shows on Kubuntu 9.10, 10.04, and openSUSE 11.2. > This behavior does not show on Kubuntu 9.10 here. Your fault or distribution fault. Period. How does a Wiki solve these problems? I won't answer to your rant (you find all arguments about wiki in the ML archives of kde-doc-english and kde-i18n-doc), cause it seems to me that you did not even get the facts right. -- Burkhard L?ck
