Bug 255384

Summary:	When htdig is missing, it should let the user install from the package manager
Product:	[Applications] khelpcenter	Reporter:	gerlos <gerlosgm>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hr.denzler
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/khelpcenter/163133768d77ae16e36b31d1174d6c60d53cfdce	Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description gerlos 2010-10-27 11:02:49 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

When you try to create an index in khelpcenter, it looks for /usr/bin/htdig and if it can't find it, it opens a dialog asking to the user to install it. 

This dialog is not friendly at all for new users, and should be replaced with a more friendly dialog explaining the problem and proposing to the user to install the missing program through the distribution package manager.

It should say something like:
"To build application index you need the program "htdig", but it's not currently installed. Do you want to install it now? (you will need administrator password)"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
when /usr/bin/htdig is missing, click on menu Settings -> Build Search Index, and then check something in search scope and click on build index.

Actual Results:  
It displays a dialog saying:
"Document 'kde_application_manuals' (Application Manuals):
'/usr/bin/htdig' not found, install the package containing it"

Expected Results:  
It should say something like:
"To build application index you need the program "htdig", but it's not currently installed. Do you want to install it now? (you will need administrator password)"

Comment 1 Hans-Rudi Denzler 2010-10-27 14:14:46 UTC

This is useful in general:
> man cnf
...
> which cnf
/usr/bin/cnf
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/cnf
command-not-found-0.1.0-34.1.noarch

Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2016-03-12 23:25:35 UTC

Git commit 163133768d77ae16e36b31d1174d6c60d53cfdce by Pino Toscano.
Committed on 12/03/2016 at 23:01.
Pushed by pino into branch 'master'.

Remove the ht://dig support

ht://dig is basically unmantained for the past decade, and its
integration in khelpcenter has always been a sort of hack (execute
a CGI, and print its resulting HTML text).

Since Xapian is used as better solution, all of the htp://dig
supporting code can be removed completely.
Related: bug 122437, bug 125276, bug 152671, bug 158633, bug 209415, bug 244091, bug 256397, bug 277464, bug 103266, bug 112958

M  +0    -2    CMakeLists.txt
D  +0    -14   README.htdig
M  +0    -14   doc/khelpcenter/index.docbook
M  +0    -9    docmetainfo.cpp
M  +0    -3    docmetainfo.h
D  +0    -61   htmlsearch.cpp
D  +0    -51   htmlsearch.h
D  +0    -47   htmlsearch/CMakeLists.txt
D  +0    -5    htmlsearch/Messages.sh
D  +0    -23   htmlsearch/checked.xpm
D  +0    -470  htmlsearch/htmlsearch.cpp
D  +0    -254  htmlsearch/htmlsearch.desktop
D  +0    -62   htmlsearch/htmlsearch.h
D  +0    -25   htmlsearch/index.cpp
D  +0    -371  htmlsearch/kcmhtmlsearch.cpp
D  +0    -84   htmlsearch/kcmhtmlsearch.h
D  +0    -52   htmlsearch/klangcombo.cpp
D  +0    -47   htmlsearch/klangcombo.h
D  +0    -246  htmlsearch/ktagcombobox.cpp
D  +0    -92   htmlsearch/ktagcombobox.h
D  +0    -6    htmlsearch/long.html
D  +0    -4    htmlsearch/meinproc_wrapper
D  +0    -21   htmlsearch/nomatch.html
D  +0    -89   htmlsearch/progressdialog.cpp
D  +0    -32   htmlsearch/progressdialog.h
D  +0    -1    htmlsearch/short.html
D  +-    --    htmlsearch/star.png
D  +-    --    htmlsearch/star_blank.png
D  +0    -19   htmlsearch/syntax.html
D  +0    -22   htmlsearch/unchecked.xpm
D  +0    -16   htmlsearch/wrapper.html
D  +0    -156  htmlsearchconfig.cpp
D  +0    -58   htmlsearchconfig.h
M  +0    -1    kcmhelpcenter.cpp
M  +0    -2    kcmhelpcenter.h
M  +2    -14   searchhandlers/CMakeLists.txt
D  +0    -8    searchhandlers/docbook.desktop.cmake
D  +0    -8    searchhandlers/htdig.desktop.cmake
D  +0    -2    searchhandlers/htdig_long.html
D  +0    -222  searchhandlers/khc_docbookdig.pl.cmake
D  +0    -148  searchhandlers/khc_htdig.pl.cmake
D  +0    -117  searchhandlers/khc_htsearch.pl
M  +1    -2    tests/CMakeLists.txt

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