From kde-core-devel  Wed Nov 17 21:22:32 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:22:32 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: khelpcenter - hack ;-)
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Hi,

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Lars Knoll wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, 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.)
> 
> I think, we should do it the way we had in KDE-1.x. Just use an url with
> protocol man: and info:, like:
> 	man://gcc
> 	info://gcc
> 
> > (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) ?
> 
> I like it very much. As David said, we avoid duplicated code this way,
> and maintaining duplicated code is always a mess (think of kmail/krn in
> kde-1.x).
> 
> > 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) .
> 
> Sounds already quite good to me.
> 
> I'd say we should go that way, and perhaps provide a small script, to
> start konqueror in khelpcenter mode.

I think you guys are on the right way! Go for it.

Bye
Torben

> Cheer,
> Lars
> 
> > 
> > Opinions? Flames?
> > 
> > Ciao,
> >  Simon
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
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