[Digikam-users] Documentation - problems

[Chris G]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:43:39PM -0700, Dick Angus wrote:
>    > I run digikam 0.9.5 beta on xubuntu 8.10.
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>    > I can't get the documentation to work, either from the web or locally.
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>    > If I go to the digikam documentation link from teh home page on the
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>    > web it takes me to:-
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>    > http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html
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>    > so far, so good, I can see that OK. However there are lots of links
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>    > like this:-
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>    > help:/kipi-plugins/metadataeditor.html
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>    > and, not surprisingly, they don't work so I can't get to half the
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>    > places I want to get to.
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>    > Locally, as I'm not running KDE, I just get a message saying that I'm
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>    > not running khelpcenter and that's it - no documentation at all.
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>    > Surely there should be some way for non-kde users to see the
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>    > documentation.
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>    *buntu 8.10 is running KDE4. Digikam 0.9.5 is KDE3 based. The help center
>    between KDE3 and KDE4 is different and it won't work. The best way to get
>    help is to use a browser and go to the Digikam site on the WEB. Then click
>    on the documentation.
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If you read what I said above you'd have realised I already tried
that!  :-)

The documentation on the web uses help:/ URLs which don't work in most
browsers. 

-- 
Chris Green