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. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #93664 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664 -- Kde help search fails too quietly if htdig is not installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19767 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
