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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: khelpcenter - hack ;-)
From:       Simon Hausmann <shaus () helios ! Med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date:       1999-11-17 15:57:30
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> 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. 

Nope, it will look like the khelpcenter, with the difference that the
caption is "Konqueror", but that's the old KInstance issue ;-))

Another difference is: Once you got that doc mode loaded, then you can,
with a few mouse clicks, "change" to the "normal" mode, as this is just a
view profile.

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

I (personally) don't like that idea (or perhaps you meant that in an
ironic way? ;)

The reason why I did that hack was:
The old khelpcenter code contained a lot of duplicated (copied) code from
konqueror, and all in all khelpcenter is nothing but a browser anyway. So
I wondered how difficult it would be to "integrate" khelpcenter into the
Konqueror browser.

Remember: It's just a hack ;-) , and I just did it as experiment ;-)

-> I wouldn't mind if people don't like it and want back the old
   khelpcenter standalone :-)

(note: I think it is possible to create some kind of khelpcenter wrapper
executable, which fires up konqueror and loads the khc profile via
Konqueror's DCOP interface, so that people still can execute
"khelpcenter" )

Bye,
 Simon

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