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Re: Can KHelpCenter read doc-base docs?



John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The doc-base package says
> Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter, rarian-compat
>
> and the wiki page [1] says that at least KHelpCenter 4 may have been able to 
> read system docs this way (it says 'not tested' there).
>
> Except for reading system-wide man and Info pages on its own (not hooking into 
> doc-base AFAIK) it doesn't appear that KHelpCenter has any relevant 
> functionality, definitely not for HTML docs.
>
> Could anyone chime in as to whether this is an old relic from a feature that 
> might've been supported in the past, still supported, or was never supported?
>

I vaguely remember it working in Stretch, but it's been so long that I
can't be sure.  It sounds like you might have found a regression if
KHelpCenter no longer shows the HTML/DocBook XML docs (this works in
Buster).

Cheers,
Nicholas

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