Bug 192217

Summary: Documentation for kfontview is missing in KDE 4.2.2
Product: [Websites] docs.kde.org Reporter: Aaron Digulla <digulla>
Component: generalAssignee: Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aaron Digulla 2009-05-10 12:55:08 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

The file /usr/bin/kfontview is part of the package kdebase4-workspace-4.2.2-221.13 but there is no documentation in this package. The docs seem to be in kde4-l10n-de-doc but there are no docs for kfontview in there. I'm not sure why this is; all I see in khelpcenter is this error: "Für /kfontview/index.html ist keine Dokumentation verfügbar."

This is frustrating. Either there should be no "Help" entry in the Help menu of kfontview or there should be some documentation somewhere. Having a help entry and no docs irritates the user. Also, the current system makes it hard to track dependencies. There are dozens of packages with programs for KDE 4 but only a single documentation package (and I couldn't even find one for English; isn't there one??). How do you make sure that the documentation is installed when a new program is installed?

For me, this looks like very brittle. There should either be a doc package per program package or the docs should go into the program package. This would make sure that I get the docs when I install a program. Furthermore, I would not have docs installed for programs which aren't installed.
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-05-10 19:50:30 UTC 
Packaging depends on distributions. (docs package per application or per module)
This could be a packaging issue too. But I'm reassigning to docs
Thanks
Comment 2 Burkhard Lück 2010-07-20 22:28:33 UTC 
Bad news:
No packing issue, kfontview never had any documention in kde :-(

Good News:
KDE SC 4.5.0 will be released with a docbook for KFontview :-)
Comment 3 Burkhard Lück 2010-07-22 21:54:33 UTC 
Fixed in branch 4.5, it will be released with 4.5.0:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=127982801814880&w=2

Thanks for the report