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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Allow application to use a website for documentation.
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2008-08-21 22:07:31
Message-ID: 48ADE723.5020207 () iidea ! pl
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Tom Albers said the following, On 2008-08-21 00:22:
> Hi, 
> 
> As I see a trend that wiki's become more popular. An application developer might \
> decide that he wants the documentation of his application in a wiki instead of a \
> docbook. it might be a good idea to provide some support for that possibility in \
> kdelibs.  
> Attached is a - straightforward - patch that makes it possible to call \
> setDocumentationAddress( website ) on the KAboutData object. If the help function \
> in the menu is used, not the KHelpCenter will launch, but the default browser with \
> that website. 
> I ask permission to commit in trunk and branch, please review, I'm not used to work \
> in kdelibs.

+1
That was also my proposal long time ago before we really started to use wikis 
in KDE. I think the wiki content can be fetched into something of reasonable 
quality and pacakges for offline use as well. That would mean less work for 
humans...

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  Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org/kexi)
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