Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

> On Friday 23 of October 2015 10:31:36 Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > Am 21.10.2015 um 12:41 schrieb Christoph Cullmann:
>> >> The last time I build umbrello with kf5 (version 5.11) dbus was required
>> >> to run khelpcenter and open/save file dialogs and for remote control.
>> >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/wind
>> >> ows:/mingw:/win32:/KF511/openSUSE_13.1/noarch/mingw32-umbrello5-installer
>> >> -2.18.99-4.1.noarch.rpm (you may open this rpm with ark of 7zip file
>> >> manager to get the installer) open/save stuff is fixed in KF5 master
>> >> But yes, khelpcenter (if it is shipped) might need fixing
>> > 
>> > khelpcenter is launched by klauncher5 through dbus
>> 
>> I guess for Windows/Mac one would need to generate the help as plain HTML
>> anyway, as you don't want to ship KHelpCenter with your application nor
>> want to require it to be there (given it uses KHTML and more stuff ;=)
> 
> How are you going to generate plain HTML if the proper macros should be in the
> (disabled) KDocTools anyway (because the docbooks - and in future other
> formats - could depend on common files?
> 
> The funny thing about this story from my point of view is that, in order to
> show that we support other platform, we are going to show that which is the
> proper platform which does not force developers to cut down functionalities.
> 
> Side note: LibreOffice ships its help viewer and I don't think anyone
> complained so far.
Nobody have never said that kdoctools should be disabled for ever, and it is NOT even disabled at
the moment, you can just build without having it available. And that is very reasonable,
as most people don't need any of the documentation stuff we ship in the frameworks.
An other story is the application documentation.

And yes, this will all take a lot more time, to have at least kind of feature parity on Windows
and Mac.

Greetings
Christoph

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