why the common-->../common symlink in doc dirs?

[tnagyemail-ml at yahoo.fr]

My only gripe is the broken link handling, at least
help:/ could try several local locations before
displaying its scary error message.

You are right though, there is no need to worry on
this anymore, as very few users read the documentation
anyway :-)

Thomas

--- Lauri Watts <lauri at kde.org> a écrit :

> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 21.05,
> tnagyemail-ml at yahoo.fr wrote:
> > Meinproc could simply use the language reference
> in
> > index.docbook ?
> 
> It's just not that simple or it would have been done
> already when all the 
> others were changed to use the help kioslave.
> 
> Firstly, the links to the licenses are entities,
> which require an actual path 
> (a real one, or the DTD breaks and all the docs are
> invalid.)  Since we 
> cannot know the absolute path for all installations,
> a relative one is 
> required.  
> 
> We can't use the help kioslave to get at the path,
> because that is KDE 
> technology, and our docs could be, and often are,
> processed outside of KDE.  
> The help:/ links for graphics and styles are only
> used in khelpcenter for 
> instance, and we already have to maintain a separate
> set of stylesheets in 
> order to generate docs for the docs.kde.org website,
> which uses the relative 
> path for the docs.  However, that only works for
> things that are actually 
> generated during the processing, whereas entities
> need to be specified either 
> directly in the doc or in the DTD.  Clearly we can't
> put a help:/ url in a 
> pdf that might be read on windows, or versions of
> documentation placed on 
> application websites.
> 
> Changing the links to the licenses would require
> either maintaining two copies 
> of all the documents, doing a nasty hack in the XSLT
> to post-process replace 
> the links themselves, or kludging meinproc to do it.
>  The first is simply not 
> happening, the second is doable, but that kind of
> thing is a slippery slope 
> to manage (I would probably accept a patch to the
> stylesheet doing this, but 
> I'm not going to write it.) The last is probably
> even less likely to happen.
> 
> An alternate solution is to simply replace the links
> to a local copy to a URL 
> on the web.  I suspect more people will find that
> annoying than the small 
> percentage actually experiencing the problem (which
> so far, is a set of one.) 
> 
> In any case, this is not a widespread problem
> causing a huge percentage of 
> users any issues.  The default KDE build systems
> manage this correctly 
> without any intervention on the part of the
> application author or the 
> packager)
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Lauri Watts
> KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
> KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org
> 


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