Ideas for Student Projects

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 16:16, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
>
> One thing that might be interesting would be to investigate improvements to
> khelpcenter for KDE 4. The primary thing to do would be to improve the
> search functionality. It currently uses htdig, and as far as I can tell,
> basically doesn't work. Strigi looks like a good contender to replace it,
> but I haven't had a chance to investigate it further. Also, I have a
> nearly-working method of generating PDF versions of the docs, which make
> for nice printable versions - this would need to be included in khelpcenter
> somewhere. The third thing I can think of would be to look at how external
> (ie, non-KDE) documentation is accessed from khelpcenter, and see if that
> can be extended/improved.

It would also be nice to separate the part of KHelpcenter that displays one 
manual and the full app with navigation through all docs on the system. It 
might for example make sense to have the manual viewer functionality as part 
of kdelibs, so that no separate application has to be started, when the user 
wants to look at the manual. This would make startup of the help browser much 
more immediate.

Well, and there are a lot of other exciting and crazy ideas for the help 
center. If somebody is really interested, I can give some more pointers and 
background.

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>