how to view newly processed help files

[Luigi Toscano]

Jack ha scritto:
> I think this might be a new twist on an old issue.  When editing docbooks, I
> set up a separate folder outside the source tree, and from there I run
> "meinproc5 path/to/index.docbook" and separately copy over the necessary png
> files.  I just did this, and typed "khelpcenter index.html" and was surprised
> that khelpcenter did open, but the manual opened not in khelpcenter, but in
> firefox.  I even tried "konqueror index.html" and the same thing happened.  I
> recall discussions that meinproc5, without using explicit stylesheets,
> produced html best viewed in a KDE browser, such as khelpcenter or konqueror,
> which is what I always recall doing.  It's been a while since I've tried this,
> so I have no idea how many different components have been upgraded in the
> meantime.  I can imagine file associations controlling what application is
> used if you click on a file in a file manager, but don't think I've ever seen
> it override an explicit invocation of an application and file.
> 
> I currently have khelpcenter-5.7.6.21043, meinproc5 5.0, frameworkd 5.85.0,
> plasma 5.22.5, and kde applications 21.04.3 (generally Gentoo stable versions).
> 
> What am I missing or forgetting, or has something really changed here?

I believe something happened there, but I also think the argument of
khelpcenter should be an help:/ URI, where kio_help should read the files from
an appropriate directory (either the global ones or the local under
~/.local/share).

Didn't we discuss this some time ago here?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443259

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Luigi