The menu bar provides the main editing, navigation, and configuration options. File contains the option for printing the currently displayed content. Under Edit, access the search function. Go contains all navigation possibilities: Table of Contents (home page of the Help Center), Back, Forward, and Last Search Result. With Settings+Build Search Index, generate a search index for all selected information sources. The toolbar contains three navigation icons (forward, back, home) and a printer icon for printing the current contents.

The navigation area in the left part of the window provides an input field for a quick search in selected information sources. Details regarding the search and the configuration of the search function in the Search tab are presented in Section 50.1.2, “The Search Function”. The Contents tab presents a tree view of all available and currently installed information sources. Click the book icons to open and browse the individual categories.

The view window always displays the currently selected contents, such as online manuals, search results, or Web pages.

The list of the main developers of this package and usually their tasks.

Known bugs or malfunctions of this package. Usually also a link to a Bugzilla Web page where you can search all bugs.

Summary of changes from version to version. Usually interesting for developers, because it is very detailed.

Licensing information.

Question and answers collected from mailing lists or newsgroups.

Procedures for installing this package in your system. Normally you do not need it, because you have the package installed already.

General information such as how to use it and what you can do with this package.

Things that are not implemented yet, but probably will be in the future.

List of files with a brief summary.

Description of what is new in this version.

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