Kubuntu Help Centre

Matt: can you clarify what needs done with this document? --Riddell

Status

• Created: 2005-04-28 by JonathanRiddell

• Priority: NeedsPriority

• People: JonathanRiddellLead, AndreasMuellerSecond

• Contributors: JonathanRiddell

• Interested:

• Status: DraftSpecification, BreezyGoal, DistroSpecification, JonathanRiddellQueue, MattZimmermanQueue

• Branch:
• Malone Bug:
• Packages:
• Depends:
• Dependents:
  1. CatalanTeam/Grafisme/Presentacions (dexpalubuntu.odp)
  2. UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/KubuntuHelpCentre

• UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc

Introduction

KHelpCentre is in need of an improved user interface and functionality.

Rationale

KHelpCentre is too complex to navigate and has no search ability.

Scope and Use Cases

A user wants to find out about use case diagrams in Umbrello. He goes to Umbrello help and instead of having to read through the whole manual can search for use cases and read the articles returned by the search.

Implementation Plan

Clean up the user interface of KHelpCentre, make it only display the current manual/article but include the ability to look at articles for other applications if needed. Include a user friendly front page with links to the most important help items.

Search should be able to browse through pages and return single pages using keywords (and eventually KDE's context link library Tenor).

Data Preservation and Migration

Packages Affected

• khelpcentre

User Interface Requirements

Simplify KHelpCentre, include an introduction page with links to the most popular places (similar to about:konqueror). Remove the tree down the side to make it only contain information relevant to the current document.

Outstanding Issues

CategoryUdu CategorySpec