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kdebase-runtime package

  1. Bug #19767
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 19767

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skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

Harald, I value your comments and blog, but this bug is about KDE help search failing because of htdig. In my experience as a n00b with Jaunty, installing htdig didn't "drag in more horrible junk", it simply made KHC search work -- badly, but FAR better than total failure. I humbly submit that the one-line packaging change to add htdig as a dependency (as Debian Lenny has done) will fix this bug in Jaunty and Karmic.

"KHC needs a rewrite" is a different bug. I couldn't find it in Launchpad or at bugs.kde.org, the closest I could find is "Add Builtin Help Center Search Facility Indexer", https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664 . And some interesting posts about using strigi or QtHelp or whatever.

Francois-Denis, FWIW on MS-Windows, KHelpCenter has no Search tab but I can't figure out how it's disabled. If it were easy to configure then I agree Kubuntu could disable the search tab and add more instructions to enabling search.

Where's a good place to document this problem and the workaround ? I couldn't find "Kubuntu 9.04 release notes" anywhere, and perhaps http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904 is too general for KDE Help Center.