Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: Debian stable Packages OS: Linux This may apply to other languages as well. It might be an installation problem, or it might be a khelpcenter bug. There are a lot of unknowns. I'll describe the behavior, and leave it to someone with more of a clue about all this i18n nonsense to determine what's going on, then redirect this appropriately. When I install the kde-i18n-es package (Debian Woody) then khelpcenter always chooses to read help texts from the ../HTML/es directory. Always. It doesn't seem to care what my current locale is set to be. This doesn't seem to affect applications themselves, as khelpcenter itself is in English at the moment. The stopgap solution is to chmod -x or otherwise hide the HTML/es directory, thus forcing khelpcenter to find the English files. (Or I could just read the help in Spanish, but that's not the point. :)
you never had spanish as default? you don't have a ~/.kde/share/apps/kio_help/cache/ directory?
I have had Spanish as the default in the past. Some bit of cruft then that I need to seek and remove? (If so, that's probably a bug too...) I do not have the directory. Indeed, I don't have its parent either. No ../apps/kio_help (and yes, my KDE user config files are indeed in ~/.kde)
Is this bug still present in a recent version of KDE, such as 3.5.8 or 4.0.1?
Blast from the past! Debian Woody? Mark this one as "out of date" or Bugzilla's equivalent. I can't repeat it with 3.5.x, and it was probably some isolated packaging fluke from 40,000 years ago anyway.