Is there a way to make help files for GNU programs such as grub and emacs available within the help system of KDE? These files are in "info" form. I can get the help via the command line, but it ought to be possible to do better than that.

I don't know if the Kde help works the same in all distros, so I'll tell you how I did it in SuSE 9.3.

Click on Control Center - Help.

When the help screen comes up, you should see in the left panel three tabs: Contents, Search, and Glossary.

Click on Contents to see what you have now in the Help Center.

Then in the Control Center menu, click on Settings - Build Search Index... To add resources to the help files.

The Build Search Index window shows just one line, Application Manuals, with an empty check box. The box is empty because I already built that index. Nevertheless a Help search for grub only brings up the Unix man page with a note that for complete information you need to do info help. I'm wondering if there is a way to view the Texinfo manuals such as the one for grub within the help system. If there isn't, there should be, since a lot of critical Linux documentation is in that form.

And as an example, I tried to view the help for the KDE program digikam. If I go into the help and look at the Unix manual (easily found), I get only a man page that says how to call it and notes that for complete documentation I need to issue the command khelpcenter help:digikam, which indeed brings up the full help though with this warning:.

The application manual displayed by the helpcenter itself is listed as index.html. If I click on it I get
Something is clearly wrong here.

In the Konqueror adress field you can do a That makes it hyper-linked etc. AFAIR. Don't remember whether it's a info:// or just info:/...