Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 3.2 OS: Linux When the user opens the "Print" dialog, the user is trying to print something. When the user then clicks "Help", it is probably because the user wants to know how to change some print option. However, the "Help" button currently opens at the top of the KDE Print System Handbook --- which begins with a many-pages-long description of what KDEPrint can do, the history of print spoolers and KDE printing interfaces, etc. All that is fine to have in the handbook, but the "Help" button should jump directly to a task-oriented page that explains how to do various things that the user might want to do from this dialog. There is the sticky problem that this documentation has not been written yet. Hence the "wishlist" status of this report. I'm reporting as a reminder to change this button's target when the appropriate help page gets written. Thanks---
This is currently not possible. The technical infrastructure of KDE is not providing an *easy* way to do that. A very work- and maintenance intensive way would be to put help:/kdeprint/somepage.html#an-anchor-in-the-page onto the respective dialog widgets. It would be a pain to get it done. We have nobody to do that work, sorry. I agree it would be extremely nice and useful to have such a feature. Context-sensitive help would be very useful. Not only in KDEPrint -- for every application! But we need a technical solution that does help automate that job, otherwise it is not feasible. Assigning this bug to module "docs" for now and changing $summary accordingly... ----------------- (changed $summary, previous was: "'Help' in Print dialog should open context-specific documentation")
What's This? I think this will be exactly the fix you are looking for that is currently being worked on in both KDE 4 as well as from a documentation standpoint.
AFAIK, this is now possible with KDE4. If you'd like a particular application to this, please file a bug against that application.