[Kde-pim] KMail Help actions

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 18 September 2010, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Montag, 13. September 2010, um 16:07:03 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> > Am Montag, 16. August 2010, um 22:46:14 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > > On Sunday 15 August 2010, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > > > Hi kdepim devels,
> > > > 
> > > > I found some issues with the Help action in KMail:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) kmail_view.desktop has an entry X-DocPath=kmail/index.html
> > > > so this item appears as "KMail view" in the navigation tree of
> > > > khelpcenter. Is this really intended, does that desktop file
> > > > need a X-DocPath? Removing the X-DocPath entry here would also
> > > > remove the item from khelpcenters navigation tree, but maybe
> > > > this is used elsewhere like e.g. in Kontact?
> > > 
> > > No. It's just used for being able to view saved messages with
> > > KMail. I guess that kmail_view.desktop was simply copied from
> > > kmail.desktop. Yeah, indeed, this DocPath entry has been in this
> > > desktop files since it has first been committed to svn. Please
> > > remove it.
> > > 
> > > > 2) aboutdata.cpp has: KAboutData( "kmail2", "kmail",
> > > > ki18n("KMail"),KMAIL_VERSION,
> > > > 
> > > > Launching the Handbook from menu Help->KMail Handbook therefore
> > > > tries to load kmail2/index.html, but the documentation is
> > > > installed in kmail/index.html.
> > > > 
> > > > Launching the Handbook from the Help buttons in the settings
> > > > pages loads kmail/index.html#configure-*, that works properly
> > > > due to the entries like
> > > > kmail_config_*.desktop:14:X-DocPath=kmail/index.html#configure-
> > > > *
> > > > 
> > > > How to solve this?
> > > > Rename the doc to kmail2 and change all X-DocPath entries
> > > > accordingly?
> > > 
> > > Yeah. Makes sense. This would also allow people to have kmail and
> > > kmail2 installed in parallel.
> > 
> > I found another solution to fix the wrong documentation help call.
> > Renaming KMail.desktop to KMail2.desktop enables
> > KToolInvocation::invokeHelp() to read the X-DocPath from the
> > desktop file. So instead of changing the X-DocPath in six
> > kmail_config_*.desktop files and renaming the kmail documentation
> > and all translations a simple $mv KMail.desktop KMail2.desktop
> > is sufficient to make the help call work again.
> > 
> > Are there any objections to rename KMail.desktop to KMail2.desktop?
> 
> Ping?

I do not object to this change. And since nobody else objected I suppose 
you can take this as consent. :-)


Regards,
Ingo
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