Re: A thought:

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On 27 Nov 2000, David C. Mason wrote:

> Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu> writes:
> 
> > It is unfortunate to break compatibility with KDE's browser here.  I
> > wonder how hard it would be to get this working properly.  I don't
> > know exactly how hyperbola finds these docs using gnome-vfs, but I
> > would imagine one (ie. the KDE people) could simply use
> > `gnome-config --prefix` and easily build in support for the
> > "gnome-help:" URI.  Or is it much more complicated?  Any help system
> > hackers care to comment?  It would be very nice if they supported
> > the "gnome-help" URI and we could support a "kde-help" URI.
> 
> Do we have any idea how (if?) they do something similar?

I just posted a note on the kde-docbook list about this, if anybody wants
to follow the thread.  I don't have KDE 2.0, but a glance at KDE
1.1(?) indicates that we had pretty good compatibility.  They seem to
always use absolute file paths and the "file" URI scheme.  They did have a
couple pages which use cgi scripts, like their index and search
engine.  I don't have KDE 2.0, so I'm not sure if this has changed more
recently.  I'll post a summary after I get their reply.

Dan