[PATCH] Allow application to use a website for documentation.

Jaroslaw Staniek js at iidea.pl
Thu Aug 21 23:07:31 BST 2008


Tom Albers said the following, On 2008-08-21 00:22:
> Hi, 
> 
> As I see a trend that wiki's become more popular. An application developer might decide that he wants the documentation of his application in a wiki instead of a docbook. it might be a good idea to provide some support for that possibility in kdelibs. 
> 
> Attached is a - straightforward - patch that makes it possible to call setDocumentationAddress( website ) on the KAboutData object. If the help function in the menu is used, not the KHelpCenter will launch, but the default browser with that website.
> 
> I ask permission to commit in trunk and branch, please review, I'm not used to work in kdelibs.

+1
That was also my proposal long time ago before we really started to use wikis 
in KDE. I think the wiki content can be fetched into something of reasonable 
quality and pacakges for offline use as well. That would mean less work for 
humans...

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