On Friday 28 May 2004 03:42, ?ric Bischoff wrote: > Dear doc writers, > > > A KDE user recently reported to me the following problem : > > He wanted some scripts to be run at KDE startupt, he knew it was kind of > possible, but he didn't know how to do that. There is a page > about .kde/Autostart in the documentation (in the User Guide, "All about > your desktop" section), but despite his many efforts, he did not find it. > There is no "Autostart" entry in the glossary. And somehow that's normal, > as "Autostart" is not really a term that should be explained. > > Good documentation is of no use if someone doesn't find in it what he looks > for. > > An index or a good search menu would have solved his problem. Even on > http://docs.kde.org there's no "search" box. The index is something great > in KControl, I feel we need the same in KHelpCenter. > > Am I missing some point ? If not, any idea on how we could make the > documentation searchable ? > > If there is some piece of code to write, I can do it, but I should first > know how Coolo would do that ;-). > > Best,
I have actually often had the experience that i knew something from my translation work, but had the hardest time finding it in the help-files. I had a very hard time finding the kio stuff that can be used in konqueror, and eventually fond it in the po-files using grep, so i agree there is a problem Erik
