Re: [SLE] KDE -- the missing manual
(snip) Peter Evans wrote on Sat, 14 Jun 2003: (text deleted)
Gar Ulbricht suggests that the documentation might not be installed. It is installed: all but one ("howtoenh") of the "YaST2 | Selections | Help and Support Documentation" little boxes are checked.
Peter --- Good -- did you try "rebuilding your help data base" ??? After downloading new "help" rpms I often rebuild mine, even though I have the box: "automatically rebuild databases" checked In addition, Are you running KDE desktop, and if so, do you have a "red and white life preservor" on your bottom "task bar" ? What happens when you click on it? Should ge SuSE help
but the whole of KDE help seemed to be missing ....
Do you also have a KDE help icon (I don't know what it looks like, I changed mine to a penguin -- but if you go slowly across the bottom "task bar" it shold spring out at you and it should say: "Help" and when you click on it you get: Chapter 1. Welcome to KDE KDE Help Center which is different "Help" from "SuSE-help system" You should if all the SuSE and KDE help is installed. ################################################### **** However I just reread your original post ***** ###################################################### KBEAR - is A Graphical FTP Client for KDE, SuSE help doesn't cover "applications" !!!! Even if you have all the SuSE help installed, "kbaer" won't be there --- You probably do have all the SuSE help info loaded -- "kbear" info is part of Kbears program -- which I don't have on my system -- if I did I could start kbear and I am sure that there is some form of help --- (click upper left corner on "help" button) or if I had the kbear rpm --- "pin kbear" would also give me some info as would "/usr/share/doc/packages/kbear" Or you can go to "kbear" website -- which you did. Great !!! HTH Gar __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
Gar Ulbricht asks:
did you try "rebuilding your help data base" ???
After downloading new "help" rpms I often rebuild mine, even though I have the box: "automatically rebuild databases" checked
No, I don't think I've attempted to rebuild my help database. How would I do this? For that matter, where is the box "automatically rebuild databases"? As I write this, I'm "installing" (or rather, waiting for an ftp server to pay some attention to me, and deliver to me) one package; I didn't notice these options. [Five minutes later:] The download/install process has finished, and I still don't see any way of rebuilding help databases; certainly I was not asked if I wanted to do this.
Are you running KDE desktop, and if so, do you have a "red and white life preservor" on your bottom "task bar" ?
Yes and yes. What happens when I click on it is as I described before. I get a list of links; some, such as that for Bash, are linked to actual help; others, such as that for "Application Manuals | KDE", go nowhere.
Do you also have a KDE help icon (I don't know what it looks like, I changed mine to a penguin -- but if you go slowly across the bottom "task bar" it shold spring out at you and it should say: "Help" and when you click on it you get: Chapter 1. Welcome to KDE KDE Help Center which is different "Help" from "SuSE-help system"
I don't see such a thing here.
You should if all the SuSE and KDE help is installed.
I believe that I have SuSE and KDE help quasi-installed. I mean, I'm sure it's all on my hard drive, and in usable form -- it's just not all available in all the expected ways. However, this doesn't bother me much as I've found ways of getting it.
KBEAR - is A Graphical FTP Client for KDE,
SuSE help doesn't cover "applications" !!!!
Even if you have all the SuSE help installed, "kbaer" won't be there ---
Well, I didn't expect it either. But I guessed that KBear would have some help. I've just reopened KBear to take a second look. One of the menu headers is "Help". The first and most useful-looking option beneath "Help" is "KBear Handbook". Clicking on this takes me to SuSE HelpCenter, which not surprisingly has nothing about KBear.
Or you can go to "kbear" website -- which you did.
Well, kind of. In Konqueror, "help:kbear" tells me all I need to know about Kbear, and "help:kde" ditto for KDE.
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