From kde-core-devel  Wed Nov 17 15:45:51 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:45:51 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: khelpcenter - hack ;-)
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Simon Hausmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just sat down this afternoon and hacked a little hack ;-)
> 
> See:
> 
> http://neuro2.med.uni-magdeburg.de/~shaus/khchack.gif
> 
> It works so far, but only 3 links in that tree work, because the rest is
> docbook documentation which khtml obviously can't display ;)
> (and the link still points to the .html doc -- which it should though, I
> guess)
> 
> Another missing feature are the man/info browsers (there are a few
> problems, regarding the addressing (url/servicetype wise) of man/info
> pages, etc.)
> 
> (and in addition I can't seem to get that search thingy to work, but that
> seems to be a missing feature in the khc code)
> 
> Now I wonder:
> 
> Do we want this hack (khc integrated in konqueror) ?
> 
> Should KHelpcenter stay a separate application? (note: the old khelpcenter
> contained a lot of duplicated code from the old konqueror)
> 
> Does anyone have good ideas for a better integration? (currently that hack
> consists of the khc_navigator as embedded BrowserView, in passive view
> mode state, combined together with the htmlview, via a view profile) .
> 
> Opinions? Flames?
> 
Hmm, am I right that konqueror doesn't load the icon view code when
started
in "doc mode"? Then I don't see the difference to a khelpcenter. 

I even think mhk should rewrite kcontrol to embed directly into
konqueror! :)

Greetings, Stephan

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