kdeaddons documentation

[Lauri Watts]

On Sunday 21 April 2002 00.35, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 02:01 pm, Lauri Watts wrote:

> It should be possible to store a list of "ApplicationXYZ"-plugins in
> ksycoca, together with a link/reference to a documentation file for each
> plugin. (The plugin should mention that in its .desktop file) That
> information could then be used by e.g. kio-help or so to merge-in the
> plugin-documentation in the documentation of that application.
>
> This assumes that:
> * at least the table of contents is dynamically generated by kio-help
> * the plugin-documentation is in a file of its own

This could be done easily.

> * all plugins have .desktop files.

They already should, but they're easily added if they don't already exist.

Something like this would be *very* nice for kcontrol and kioslaves too.  Both 
of them suffer similar problems, there's no simple way to install just one 
document, or add another one later, but splitting them into individual and 
separate documents would allow exactly that.  The current solution for those 
is pretty much the same inelegant hack that's going on in kdeaddons, and I 
think they are actually a much bigger, if less visible, problem.

Now who do I bribe to implement the first part - the dynamic generation of 
TOC's :)

-- 
Lauri Wats