Howto add new documentation to khelpcenter?

[Rainer Wirtz]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 21:12 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:47, Rainer Wirtz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > What should I do to add HTML-docs of non-kde Apps to khelpcenter? I had
> > some success by copying the .desktop file to my $KDEHOME/share/applnk
> > directory and adding a "DocPath" entry pointing to the docs to this
> > .desktop file. *But* this only works when the path to the docs is given
> > relativ to $KDEDIR/share/doc/html/de. So instead of
> > "/usr/doc/mplayer/documentation.html" I had to use
> > "../../../../../usr/doc/mplayer/documentation.html".
> >
> > My question:
> > Is there a better way to do this, or should it work that way and it's a
> > bug in khelpcenter? There has to be a simple way to add docu to the
> > khelpcenter. I would consider it a bug if there's none.
>
> I don't know if there is currently a better way to do this.
> You could contact Cornelius Schumacher (current KHelpCenter maintainer).
> I read a discussion on the main freedesktop.org mailinglist about a
> inter-desktop help system, maybe it contains some hints for your problem as
> well.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

It seems that khelpcenter not being able to handle absolute paths is caused by 
a bug in kdelibs. From khelpcenter's side it should work. I'm going to 
investigate it a bit further and eventually write a bug report.
Thanks for your hint to the mailing-list. I will check the archive.

Rainer
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