Today I did a little bug hunt (that's where you actually search for the bugs and then kill them int he most hackish manner ;-)
And KHelpCenter made me cry, seriously...
It's still using the crystal icon all over the place:
It's main content is for some reason missing icons:
Remember this pic:
Notice anything?
Note the upper right in the following
Glossary has an as awesome icon issue open content uses help-contents, closed ones should use contents2 (crystalsvg name of course, and an oxygen replacement never got requested apparently :S)
Content of the Glossary then did it and made me cry
At least I got search index....
...strange that it doesn't work even though the index builder said so

First off: I didn't report these issues yet, because bugs.kde.org only offers versions up to 3.5 and unspecified, now I can't really use unspecified, right?
Things I was wondering: Why does khelpcenter still use htdig? Wouldn't Strigi/Nepomuk would be better for that kind of job? Does the index builder need to make me think it succeeded? Does everything have to look so broken? Is khelpcenter actually maintained?
Meanwhile I understood that none of the answers is important anyway .... we, KDE, as a community should just go fix these issues.
I already did a start

6 Comments:
Wow, that's probably the least sexy thing in the Linux universe to work on ;)
Good show! I love seeing stuff like this get polished.
The sad truth is that KHelpCenter actually isn't maintained. As one of the maintainers of previous (ancient) times I feel sorry about that, but I can't do much about it right now.
Yep. KHelpCenter is truly awful. Which is strange, because QtAssistant is so much better, and fairly easy to use for your own docs, but I guess it just never got done.
Almost better to just remove it entirely and point users to the app's website. The only thing worse than no docs is outdated ones in a viewer that is full of bugs.
Well, outdated docs should be removed or updated.
KHelpCenter itself just needs some love and a maintainer, removing it would be probably be more work than polishing it anyway ;-)
I did some work on the appearance for now:
http://aplg.kollide.net/images/snapshot061.png
http://aplg.kollide.net/images/snapshot062.png
The code itself needs especially cleanup from what I have seen so far, and I think with strigi/nepomuk based indexing it could become better and more reliable than ever before.
i hope you can do something about it, i couldn't use kde help in my desktop because it didn't allow search (the bug you described) also the fonts seem to be split halfway up (??) as i know little about linux i changed my desktop over GNOME but i like KDE best (it is not a stupid reason and it is very annoying), thanks for taking the time to fix an important thing for new users
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