[Bug 19767] Re: Kde help search fails too quietly if htdig is not installed

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Harald, I value your comments and blog, but this bug is about KDE help
search failing because of htdig.  In my experience as a n00b with
Jaunty, installing htdig didn't "drag in more horrible junk", it simply
made KHC search work -- badly, but FAR better than total failure. I
humbly submit that the one-line packaging change to add htdig as a
dependency (as Debian Lenny has done) will fix this bug in Jaunty and
Karmic.

"KHC needs a rewrite" is a different bug. I couldn't find it in
Launchpad or at bugs.kde.org, the closest I could find is "Add Builtin
Help Center Search Facility Indexer",
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664 .  And some interesting posts
about using strigi or QtHelp or whatever.

Francois-Denis, FWIW on MS-Windows, KHelpCenter has no Search tab but I
can't figure out how it's disabled.  If it were easy to configure then I
agree Kubuntu could disable the search tab and add more instructions to
enabling search.

Where's a good place to document this problem and the workaround ?  I
couldn't find "Kubuntu 9.04 release notes" anywhere, and perhaps
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904 is too general for KDE
Help Center.

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #93664
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664

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Kde help search fails too quietly  if htdig is not installed
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