kde helpcenter integration into gnome

[Matthew East]

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:14 -0600, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2007, John Levin wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | I regularly use a handful of KDE apps on Gnome, Scribus and Basket being
> | the most important.
> |
> | I've filed a bug about Basket complaining of khelpcenter not being
> | installed when calling up the handbook from the helpmenu (bug no.
> | 85781), but am wondering whether there is a deeper problem abut
> | integration between KDE and Gnome help, and whether there is any attempt
> | underway to rectify this. Should I file a more general bug? (in which
> | case I'd like some pointers as to package, etc)
> 
> One thing I noticed is that GNOME and KDE stores their help files in different 
> locations. Yelp shouldn't have a problem opening up KDE documentation as it 
> is a .docbook extension. This has been a goal of the Freedesktop campaign 
> for "YEARS" and neither side has done much to meet it, or make it work.

I don't think the help being stored in different places causes the
problem that John is describing. Having said that, I don't know anything
about how help buttons work so I don't know why Scribus would be able to
access both help applications, and other applications not.

Matt
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