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Documentation KIOSlaves

March 15th 2009 05:46 pm

KDE has long had a nice collection of useful kioslaves for viewing installed documentation, including viewers for manpages and info pages (used by GNU software).

For KDE 4.2 I had introduced another viewer, this time for Perl’s perldoc documentation, which used a look similar to the appearance at www.kde.org. At the same time I had ported kio_man, the manpage viewer to have a similar appearance.

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to also do likewise for kio_info, the info page viewer. That has now been rectified, as seen in the following image, which shows output from all 3 documentation filters:

Thumbnail view of 3 columns of webpage output

At the same time I factored out the CSS into a common docfilter CSS suite, so that any improvements should fix all the docfilter-type KIOSlaves at once.

Posted by mpyne under KDE | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Documentation KIOSlaves”

Michael "Awesome" Howell responded on 15 Mar 2009 at 19:07 #

Thanks for improving those little things that people use without thinking about it.
pinotree responded on 15 Mar 2009 at 19:32 #

Much appreciated, thanks a lot!
Stefan Majewsky responded on 16 Mar 2009 at 12:07 #

Thanks a lot! I’m using info:sed and info:bash quite often.