Re: Quanta 3.5.5 documentation sidebar query

> On Friday 20 April 2007 15:33:03 Andras Mantia wrote:

> It probably would... Kubuntu does not really have a 'root' account
> available
> (unless you set the password)...

I know and the first thing I do on Kubuntu systems is "sudo passwd". ;)

> I would have thought that Quanta would check for duplicates

I'm not at home to check the code, but I see no real benefit of checking
for duplicates in this case (in case of other resources as DTEPs, there is
a duplicate check as without that it would be a mess there).

> installing as root (or sudo) should install in the same place, over-riding
> the default, so perhaps Kubuntu have moved the default locations?

Again, this was just an idea that it might install there if it has write
access (running as root), but without the code this is just an assumption.
I know I wrote that code, but it was long time ago and I don't remember.
:)

> It does not really worry me, but I'll mention it on the Kubuntu bug
> system...

The base problem is indeed Kubuntu: they install a broken documentation
system for help. What they should do is either:
1) fix the dependencies and install the missing documentations. How do
they do it is their problem.
2) remove the documentations completely and allow the users to download
via hotstuff. This way at least there won't be duplicate items.

Of course, 1) is the preferred.

Until that I suggest to every Kubuntu user to remove the
/usr/share/apps/quanta/docs (where Kubuntu installs the default docs) and
download the documentation via hotstuff. This way they will have the docs
and there will be no stale entries.

Andras