kde helpcenter integration into gnome

[Rich Johnson]

On Saturday 17 February 2007, Matthew East wrote:
| 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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Ahh, ya with Scribus I don't know it should work no matter which system it is 
installed on, even Mac OS and Windows. As for Basket, it should be set to 
using the typical help:/document and if I am not mistaken, Yelp recognizes 
the help:/ URI as well.

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