Bug 1953114 - Selecting Help:Contents only shows an invalid URL
Summary: Selecting Help:Contents only shows an invalid URL
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kwave
Version: 33
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sergio Basto
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-23 23:07 UTC by Martin Gregorie
Modified: 2021-11-14 03:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: kwave-21.04.3-1.fc34
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-11-14 03:43:29 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Martin Gregorie 2021-04-23 23:07:42 UTC
Description of problem: Selecting Help:Contents shows an invalid URL, not the
                        required manual


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20.12.2


How reproducible: Happens every time Help|Contents is selected from the menu bar


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Help|Contents from the menu bar
2.
3.

Actual results: An invalid URL is shown 


Expected results: The Kwave user manual is displayed


Additional info: 

Seeing that "dnf install kwave" also downloads and installs a documentation 
RPM as /usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kwave , its rather odd that Help|Content doesn't
point to that.

Comment 1 Sergio Basto 2021-04-26 09:42:50 UTC
It works for me  

Select Help|Contents from the menu bar

The Kwave Handbook
Thomas Eschenbacher <thomas.eschenbacher>
Revision 20.07.70 (2020-07-06)
Copyright © 1998-2000 Martin Wilz
Copyright © 2020 Thomas Eschenbacher
Legal Notice
Kwave is a simple sound editor built on KDE Frameworks 5.

Comment 2 Martin Gregorie 2021-04-26 11:42:38 UTC
The Kwave copy I'm using was installed from the kwave.x86_64 20.12.2-1.fc33 rpm package

It tries to open

 https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwave/kwave//kwave/index.html 

when Help:Contents is clicked, F1 is pressed or that URL is opened with Firefox. Since the only result of of doing any of these is a 404 error, I can only assume that the structure of the docs.kde.org website has been restructured but that nobody has updated Kwave yet.

I can't see anything relevant to Kwave in ~/.kde under the login where I'm running Kwave.

Comment 3 Sergio Basto 2021-04-27 00:57:10 UTC
In my case works without network 

have you installed khelpcenter-20.12.2-1.fc33.x86_64 ?

Comment 4 Sergio Basto 2021-04-27 00:59:55 UTC
anyway the correct link is https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwave/kwave/index.html

Comment 5 Sergio Basto 2021-04-27 01:06:23 UTC
can you check with other kde app if you got the same problem ? thank you 

kate for example

Comment 6 Martin Gregorie 2021-04-27 09:10:37 UTC
khelpcenter has fixed the problem as far as Kwave is concerned: thanks for that tip. Not its installed the problem is solved.

However, as the KDE Help Center wasn't installed or even hinted at when I used the RedHat package manager, dnf, to install Kwave it would be a very good idea if it is made a dependency of the Kwave RPM and of any other KDE applications that are packaged for distribution with RedHat's dnf package manager.

I also notice that some parts of the KDE Help Center, e.g. referencing the Kwave home page, explicitly depend on the Pale Moon Browser, which is not supported by any RedHat Linux versions. It would be much better if the desktop's default browser is used instead: I use the XFCE desktop and have Brave, Firefox and Lynx browsers installed, with Brave set as my default browser.

AFAIK I don't use any other KDE apps, but I suppose that, having now installed the KDE Help Center, the Help problem I discovered with Kwave will not affect any other KDE apps I may decide to use in future.

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 14:37:41 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
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to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
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of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

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lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 15:35:41 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 9 Martin Gregorie 2021-11-04 18:25:52 UTC
My last point has not been addressed: the khelpcenter RPM must be installed or kwave's Help|Content selection (or hitting F1) will not work correctly, but the khelpcenter package is not declared as a requirement by the kwave package.

This bug should remain open until khelpcenter is mafe a required dependency of the kwave package.

Comment 10 Sergio Basto 2021-11-06 02:02:07 UTC
hi, this bug is fixed on F34, I guess is not about kwave but about some global variable on kde

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2021-11-06 02:03:14 UTC
FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 34. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2021-11-07 02:16:01 UTC
FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2021-11-14 03:43:29 UTC
FEDORA-2021-10dde30cb5 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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