[Bug 238444] [NEW] Index building for initial launch is overly complex

[Onno Benschop]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: khelpcenter

After installing khelpcenter to be able to read the taskjuggler manual
and tutorial pages, the initial launch caused several windows to open
which prompted for index rebuilding with check-boxes and confusing
options.

I'm lodging this as a khelpcenter bug, but it may turn out to be a
taskjuggler bug.

Personally, I think that the installation process should just rebuild
all indices without requiring the user to either be aware of any such
mystic things as what an index might do or provide.

Alternatively, if an index is really only "nice to have", then there
should not be a prompt to provide this functionality and this should be
a preference.

In my opinion the Human Interface Guidelines many, many years ago (1995)
said it best:

A preference should be a setting that the user changes infrequently. If you
provide choices to users that they will change many times in a work session,
you should implement those choices in a menu or other interface element to
which the user has easy, modeless access. By choosing the right way to
implement a feature, you can give users the flexibility to choose, in their own
language, their preferred method of working.

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Index building for initial launch is overly complex
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238444
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