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KDE Help Center's Build Search Index window displays empty scope list

  Date: Dec 19    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 534
  

I still call myself a newbie at Linux and I'm even newer at Kubuntu
and KDE 4.0 { I currently use Hardy Heron } btw - I'm new to the
kubuntu-users e-list... I hope that I can meet some friendly ppl here
*SMILE*

I have encountered the bug in the KDE ( see subject ) and found that
it is a known bug and has existed since KDE 3.x (not sure of the exact
version).

I have a snapshot of the window show the exact bug & I've used GNU
Paint to edit the PNG image to show how I think a new button could be
added to the form -- to recreate the missing index file.

Bug report :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101876

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Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 19    

I was hoping that my contribution about this well documented bug in KDE
would generate some discussion. Actually, I was hoping that someone from the
KDE Development Team (if that's the right term) would at least tell me if my
idea of adding a new button onto the window, for generating indexes, is a
good idea or not.

How about some discussion about how to fix this bug?!? Or am I being too
naive?!?

Quoted from this URL webpage:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101876

The attachment's description:
It is a snapshot of the window showing the bug WITH a drawing of a proposed
new
BUTTON to be added to the window.

Hello KDE people,

The attachment is a snapshot of the window, showing the bug -- which I have
edited with GNU Paint, to add a "button".

What I'm proposing is that a new button with the caption of "Recreate
Missing
Index" be added to the form -- please refer to the attached PNG file.

I'm only a newbie at Linux and Kubuntu (& KDE 4.0)... However, I thought
that
this bug called for some lateral thinking. If the index file is missing,
then
to my way of thinking, why not have a button to click on to recreate it. The

way I see it the software needs to have enough 'SMARTS' to know:

(a) what the filename of the missing index file should be.
(b) the path to recreate the missing index file.
& (c) what needs to written to the new index file (e.g. what it should
include)


I don't have enough understanding of how Kubuntu or KDE works... but maybe
someone else does.

Description of PNG image:
It is a snapshot of the window showing the bug WITH a drawing (created with
GNU
Paint) of a proposed new BUTTON to be added to the window.

 




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