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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#5205: Konqueror, man viewer and tree navigation
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-20 0:42:05
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, David Faure wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:21:32PM -0700, joao sampaio wrote:
> > Package: konqueror
> > Version: 3.0 (KDE 1.91 Beta >= 20000614)
> > Severity: normal
> >  
> > Hi,
> > Imagine you are looking the manpage section 6,
> > location "man:(6)" . When you press the "up" button in
> > konqueror you would expect going to the main section
> > of the manpages, "man:(index)".
> Oh, indeed. Didn't notice this problem.
> 
> And similar problem when going up from man:pwd(3) should go to man:(3) ...
> 
> > However, konqueror tries to go to location "man:."
> > which isn't supported by the man viewer. This
> > shouldn't be hard to correct,  you could simply make
> > the man viewer support "man:.".
> Hmm, here man:. goes to bash's man page on '.' (aka "source") :-)
> 
> I don't see how we could hack protocol-specific ways of going "up".
> That's pretty much defined once and for all, for any kind of URL,
> so making an exception for man: looks wrong to me.
> So... the URL scheme used for sections should probably be different.
> 
> Well, hmm, there's a dilemn here.
> * With the current scheme, up can't work, but the URLs look familiar, like pwd(3)
> * With the following scheme, using the "host" idea from HTTP:
>     man://       -> full list [or list of sections?]
>     man://6/     -> section 6
>     man://3/pwd  -> page for pwd
>     man:/pwd     -> page for pwd as well (host is implicit)
> 
> then Up works perfect, but those URLs don't look very good to the user, IMHO.

Whenever you change the text in the location box we filter the URL correct ? If
so, couldn't you add whatever filtering you need done in the shortURI filter
plugin.  This way the end user will only see what makes sense while the correct
format is sent to the man io-slaves....

Regards,
Dawit A.

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