[khelpcenter] [Bug 387891] New: [suggestion]: add support for compiled Qt help collections (qthelp:)

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387891

            Bug ID: 387891
           Summary: [suggestion]: add support for compiled Qt help
                    collections (qthelp:)
           Product: khelpcenter
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kde-doc-english at kde.org
          Reporter: rjvbertin at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

It could be very practical if KHelpCentre (KHC) also supported compiled Qt help
documents (.qch) or better yet, collections of such documentation.

This would make it a prime candidate for use as an external documentation
browser for KDE's own IDE, KDevelop. It already uses KHC for its own handbook;
with .qch support KHC could be used as a browser for 2 of the 3 standard
documentation plugins that come with KDevelop (I'm currently working on an
external viewer mod for just the QtHelp plugin that uses Qt's Assistant).

Support for user-defined collections would be important here, for 2 main
reasons:
- developer documentation is developer-specific, may vary over time and can be
installed in multiple locations, making a simple fixed/hardcoded repository
location inpractical.
- on Mac, there's a bug somewhere in the QtHelp implementation or its
underlying APIs which limits the number of documentation files that can be
handled as a single collection (QTBUG-59664). Given the symptoms when that
limit is exceeded a similar issue could well exists on other BSD variants too.

I'd be interested in participating in this project.

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