Comment # 5 on bug 980068 from Christopher Yeleighton

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #4)
> (In reply to Christopher Yeleighton from comment #3)
> > If you insist on making KDE Help Centre mandatory, thereby overriding
> > upstream
> 
> What are you talking about?
> 
> I/we insist on nothing.
> khelpcenter is already mandatory upstream to display the applications' help,
> and always was AFAIR.

That is not what KDE developers have to say about the problem.

> 
> Actually openSUSE patches the khelpcenter menu entry to run susehelp instead
> of khelpcenter, but in a KDE session this again just runs khelpcenter (and
> that's how it is since years too).
> 
> > then you need to change the mechanism of loading
> > libkdeinit5_khelpcenter5 from run-time to load-time.
> 
> And what does that mean?
> This sentence doesn't make sense at all to me.

You can load a shared library into an application in two ways: at load time or
at run time.  If you load it at load time, the application is bound to the
library and will not start when the library is missing; if you load it at run
time, the application can circumvent the problem of the missing library and do
something else instead.  That is what KDE handbook command does by design: if
the library is not present and it cannot execute khelpcenter(5), it launches
the browser with online handbook instead.  Except that, in openSUSE, it does
not.