when starting kbudget it asks if i want to see the tutorial. when choosing "yes" the kde help system takes a long time to decide there is no help file. same when trying to start help from the application. CONTENTS shows this bit: obj /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/index.docbook 53cd8b41119909fd38ce17bf24120fab 1077469265 obj /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/index.cache.bz2 094c0cdcb05b122709c3c4bd51fd1582 1077469265 sym /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/common -> /usr/kde/3.2/share/doc/HTML/en/common 1077469266 obj /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/newtransaction.pngMaking all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc' Making all in en make[3]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc/en' /usr/kde/3.2/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc/en' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directoryMaking install in doc make[1]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc' Making install in en make[2]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc/en' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc/en' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget mkdir /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image/usr/share/doc mkdir /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image/usr/share/doc/HTML mkdir /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image/usr/share/doc/HTML/en mkdir /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.docbook /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/index.docbook /bin/install -c -p -m 644 newtransaction.png /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/newtransaction.png /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.cache.bz2 /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/ rm -f /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/common ln -s /usr/kde/3.2/share/doc/HTML/en/common /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/common /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/ /bin/install -c -p -m 644 ./newtransaction.png /home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/image//usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kbudget/newtransaction.png make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc/en' `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/portagetemp/portage/kbudget-0.5/work/kbudget-0.5/doc' 75cbd746da1683cb52f127d5047002d9 1077469265 and that's it, agrees with make log
For the long delay while loading HelpCenter, Bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42469 may be related.
Can you try kbudget-0.6 which I will mark stable on x86 shortly. Help works fine for me there.
seems fixed.