Nathaniel W Turner writes: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:17:34 +0100 Achim Bohnet wrote: >> My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that >> describes the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more >> detail). From all other manpages just use a reference to this >> manpage.
> Have you made any progress on this? > This really does seem like the Right Way to document these options > -- after all, they are not provided by the applications themselves, > but by kdelibs and qt; it makes sense therefor, to put the > documentation in the libs packages as well. If KDE adds (or worse, > removes) an option to the common KDE options, do we really want to > have to update every individual application's manpage? Would the > individual app maintainers even notice something this subtle? > Anyway, nobody seemed to think this was a bad idea, so I guess I > don't need to try so hard to convince you. =) > I'm willing to help with this, but of course I don't want to > duplicate any effort. Since I'm not sure I already told you about this: Everyone working on kde man pages in general might have a look at the kdemangen.pl script in kdesdk/scripts. The output is fairly good, and probably very useful as the base for the real manpages. Also the kde-options manpage could perhaps be based on its output ? cheers domi
