Kubuntu org Doc links broken

[ElegantSol]

I was looking for Kubuntu documentation at:

http://www.kubuntu.org/doc/7.10/newt...u/C/index.html

but found that the following links are dead or wrong:

KDE Users' Manual
KDE Quickstart Guide
A Visual Guide to KDE

Are these guides stored elsewhere?

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

You can always try kmenu->help

[Snowhog]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Appears that the KDE Users' Manual (from the link) is working - the others are not.

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Thanks

Don't have one installed at the moment, so I was looking to read before installing.

The user's manual says:

KPPP is a dialer and front end for pppd, allowing for interactive script generation and network setup.

As atitle.

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Thanks

Don't have one installed at the moment, so I was looking to read before installing.

The user's manual says:

KPPP is a dialer and front end for pppd, allowing for interactive script generation and network setup.

As atitle.

?

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Don't have a Kubuntu system installed at the moment, so I was looking to read before installing it.

on the page:

http://www.kubuntu.org/doc/7.10/newt...u/C/index.html

If you are new to Kubuntu and/or KDE:

KDE Users' Manual

The KDE Users' Manual link brings up:


KPPP is a dialer and front end for pppd, allowing for interactive script generation and network setup.

which is about communications' settings, not a general user manual.

[dibl]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Confirmed -- they've hosed up the link.

Try this one:

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebas...ide/index.html

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Thanks for the redirection.

I did not notice that they were pointing to kde.org because they look so much alike.\

It would be nice if kubuntu.org added simple navigation links to Home etc. like kde.org.

I guess I will find the other missing documents at kde.org also.

[dibl]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

I guess I will find the other missing documents at kde.org also.

Yes, however, note that KDE 4.01 is released, and those docs are all at the KDE 3 level, as far as I can tell. The basic desktop elements are well-described there, but I wouldn't invest a lot of time memorizing the detailed menu functions of each KDE 3 app, as it's all rather different in KDE 4. Not that you can't run KDE 3.5 for the next 100 years if you wish ....

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Thanks for the recommendations.

http://docs.kde.org/ and I selected the User Guide (English) or the FAQ (English).
Both of which are broken also. I’m not having much luck with KDE.


BTW I selected the defaults which are for version 4.

[Snowhog]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Concur. It'd be my guess, that due to the fast development of KDE 4.x and the upgrade to 3.5.9, that many of the documentation links are being rewritten.

[Snowhog]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

I've emailed the site Webmaster about the bad documentation links. We'll see what comes of it.

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

I agree that they are updating, but I then switched to kde3 :

http://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&branch=kde3

and the FAQ works, but the User Guide:

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/k...ide/index.html

is also a broken link even though it is the current version.

I do not know what to say. This has to frustrate new users trying to learn KDE.

[Snowhog]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

If you have the khelpcenter application installed, you can access the Kubuntu Documents, KDE User's Manual, Application Manuals and more. See picture below.

[ElegantSol]

Re: Kubuntu org Doc links broken

Thats a good idea, but as per my second post of this series, I have not yet installed it. I was just looking for some good documentation to read before I started.

If KDE developers are that passionate about their product, then they should be using all of their resources to enlist a large following of users. This is certainly not the way to do it.