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Bug 1876

Summary:	kbarcode help is non standard and does not honor the user's web browser preference
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	non-core programs	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	albator78, bugwatch, darrella, kb9vqf
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Darrell 2014-01-26 02:11:23 CST

1. When selecting Help->Help, a dialog appears to download a PDF file. The PDF can be converted to a docbook file for Trinity. Therefore the menu option should use the standard invokeHelp function.

2. When selecting Help->Barcode Help, an html page opens in konqueror rather than the browser set in the user's Component Chooser settings.

Comment 1 Francois Andriot 2014-08-02 04:58:42 CDT

About problem 2:
It looks like kbarcode is actually using the program associated with the ".html" extension in TDE, which is konqueror by default.
Also, in kcontrol / component chooser", it is said that the web browser you specify is for internet usage, for "http" and "https" URL. Not for local HTML browsing.
Reading an offline documentation, even in HTML format, is not internet browsing. So I don't think there is a problem here.

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2014-10-02 23:38:49 CDT

How does one convert a PDF to docbook?  Once that is done and I have the docbook file I can handle the code changes required to standardize this.

I tend to agree with Francois on point 2, partly out of laziness on my part. :-)

Comment 3 Darrell 2014-10-03 16:48:09 CDT

There is no easy way to fix this. There are PDF tools but nothing to get to docbook in one nice move. Probably will have to convert to raw text such as pdf2ps and ps2ascii, or use some of the other PDF tools. In the end, grunt work will be required to massage into a docbook template. Not a priority for R14.

Comment 4 Timothy Pearson 2014-10-03 18:02:33 CDT

Alright, at minimum then we should probably host the PDF on the TDE mirror system if kbarcode is still fetching it from an external URL.  Once this is checked/done I will unset this as an R14 blocker bug.

Comment 5 Timothy Pearson 2014-10-03 23:56:18 CDT

kbarcode modified to download help file from TDE site in GIT hash 80984a0.

If it makes any difference, you don't have to convert the pdf.  Full latex source is provided:
http://trinitydesktop.org/data/main/applications/kbarcode/kbarcode_doc_2.0.0.tar.bz2

I'm removing this from the main R14 bug list.