Still no handbook help.

[Chuck Pergiel]

I have digiKam installed and working on the current version of Linux Mint (serena).

Asking Help for the digiKam handbook produces an .

Error message:

The requested operation could not be completed
Cannot Initiate the help Protocol
Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process

Details of the Request:
URL: help:/digikam/index.html
Protocol: help
Date and Time: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:26:55 AM PST
Additional Information: Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files

[Gilles Caulier-4]

This is one other run time dependency to render handbook in help center.

Forget it and look handbbok online as well...

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-29 21:10 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

I have digiKam installed and working on the current version of Linux Mint (serena).

Asking Help for the digiKam handbook produces an .

Error message:

The requested operation could not be completed
Cannot Initiate the help Protocol
Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process

Details of the Request:
URL: help:/digikam/index.html
Protocol: help
Date and Time: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:26:55 AM PST
Additional Information: Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files

[Philip Johnsson]

I'm afraid that you will end up having to install most of the plasma packages. I'm not sure exactly what's minimal from plasma to get the klauncher going if you don't use KDE/plasma as your desktop or have it installed. For starters you could try to install the kded5 and kinit packages and see if that helps. Otherwise installing plasma desktop will solve it but that's many packages that you otherwise don't need.

It's easier for you to read the documentation online as Gilles suggested...

/Philip

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have digiKam installed and working on the current version of Linux Mint (serena).

Asking Help for the digiKam handbook produces an .

Error message:

The requested operation could not be completed
Cannot Initiate the help Protocol
Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process

Details of the Request:
URL: help:/digikam/index.html
Protocol: help
Date and Time: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:26:55 AM PST
Additional Information: Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files

[Anders Lund]

søndag den 29. januar 2017 22.35.52 CET skrev Philip Johnsson:
> I'm afraid that you will end up having to install most of the plasma
> packages. I'm not sure exactly what's minimal from plasma to get the
> klauncher going if you don't use KDE/plasma as your desktop or have it
> installed. For starters you could try to install the kded5 and kinit
> packages and see if that helps. Otherwise installing plasma desktop will
> solve it but that's many packages that you otherwise don't need.


I'm quite sure it uses kio (kioclient --exec).

>
> It's easier for you to read the documentation online as Gilles suggested...
>
> /Philip
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I have digiKam installed and working on the current version of Linux Mint
> > (serena).
> > Asking *Help* for the digiKam handbook produces an .
> > Error message:
> >
> > The requested operation could not be completed
> > Cannot Initiate the help Protocol
> > Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process
> >
> > Details of the Request:
> > URL: help:/digikam/index.html
> > Protocol: help
> > Date and Time: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:26:55 AM PST
> > Additional Information: Cannot talk to klauncher: The name
> > org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files
> >
> >
> > I found a post on the Linux Mint Forum
> > <https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=233795&p=1241813&hilit=
> > digikam#p1241087> that claimed installing Plasma 5.6 solved his problem. I
> > added my problem to that thread, but so far there has been no response.
> > This version of Linux (serena) is supposed to include Plasma 5.6 (
> > https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sarah_kde_whatsnew.php).
> > I have also installed the khelpcenter package and digikam5-doc, but still
> > no joy.
> >
> > Chuck Pergiel
> > Silicon Forest
> > www.pergelator.blogspot.com
> > Sent from my Commodore-64 via a US Robotics 300 Baud Modem

[Gilles Caulier-4]

2017-01-30 8:22 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:

søndag den 29. januar 2017 22.35.52 CET skrev Philip Johnsson:
> I'm afraid that you will end up having to install most of the plasma
> packages. I'm not sure exactly what's minimal from plasma to get the
> klauncher going if you don't use KDE/plasma as your desktop or have it
> installed. For starters you could try to install the kded5 and kinit
> packages and see if that helps. Otherwise installing plasma desktop will
> solve it but that's many packages that you otherwise don't need.


I'm quite sure it uses kio (kioclient --exec).

yes absolutely. help:// protocol...

In AppImage, i dropped the call to KDE help Center through KIO API by a simple call to Qt QDesktopService API to open the default web browser and to open the online version.

1/ This prevent to embed the handbook inside the bundle (this require to add 100MB of data)

2/ KIO API is a puzzle. This require a large amount of KDE run time component to only open the handbook. I tried to do it at least to understand how it work, and it never work. Too much complicated and time consuming... Time is precious for me...

Gilles Caulier