KHelpcenter problem

Cornelius Schumacher schumacher at kde.org
Wed Feb 23 10:06:56 GMT 2005


On Wednesday, 23. February 2005 10:22, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2005 11:07, you wrote:
> > Obviously, the indexdir is not set. The question is why isn't there a
> > default indexdir? And whats should that be? Something like
> > $KDEHOME/share/apps/khelpcenter? If I select such a directory, it
> > runs well from an user session as well.
>
> Here comes a patch. Might be not the optimal, but I don't know how can
> you define a default directory in KConfigXT, which depends on the
> user's KDEHOME variable.

Attached is the patch which does this the KConfigXT way.

I'm not sure it is a good idea to store the index in the home of the user, 
because the index is the same for all users and can become quite big. So if 
you have many users on your system, you will waste quite a lot of diskspace.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
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