>(1) There is no documentation available for /quanta/index.html

I have a handbook on my system.

Are you building tdewebdev with cmake or automake? cmake conversion 
never was completed. If you look at the top level CMakeLists.txt in 
tdewebdev you'll notice there is no configuration instruction to 
build docs and in the doc directory there is no CMakeLists.txt. 
IOW, no docs will be built if you use cmake.

>(2) below:
>
>01:37 valhalla:~> cat $TDEHOME/share/apps/quanta/plugins.rc
>cat: /home/david/.trinity/share/apps/quanta/plugins.rc: No such 
>file or directory

Interesting. I wonder then what caused the dialog to appear, but if 
you are building with cmake then that might be the cause. As the 
cmake conversion is incomplete then other things might break too.

>01:48 valhalla:~> cat $TDEDIR/share/apps/quanta/plugins.rc
>[General]
>Plugins=KFileReplace, CVS Management (Cervisia),XSLT Debugger, 
>KImageMapEditor,
>Link Checker, Konsole
>SearchPaths=
>
>[CVS Management (Cervisia)]
>Arguments=
>FileName=trinity/libcervisiapart.la
>Icon=cervisia
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Editor View
>Standard=true
>Standard Name=cervisia_kpart
>Type=KPart
>Input=3
>
>[KFileReplace]
>Arguments=
>FileName=trinity/libtdefilereplacepart.la
>Icon=tdefilereplace
>Input=3
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Editor Tab
>ReadOnly=true
>Standard=false
>Type=KPart
>
>[XSLT Debugger]
>Arguments=
>FileName=trinity/libkxsldbgpart.la
>Icon=xsltproc.png
>Input=0
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Editor Tab
>ReadOnly=true
>Standard=false
>Type=KPart
>
>[KImageMapEditor]
>FileName=trinity/libkimagemapeditor.la
>Icon=kimagemapeditor
>Input=1
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Editor Tab
>ReadOnly=true
>Standard=false
>Type=KPart
>
>[Link Checker]
>FileName=trinity/libklinkstatuspart.la
>Icon=klinkstatus
>Input=1
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Editor Tab
>ReadOnly=true
>Standard=false
>Type=KPart
>
>[Konsole]
>FileName=trinity/libkonsolepart.la
>Icon=konsole
>Input=1
>Location=
>OutputWindow=Separate Toolview
>ReadOnly=true
>Standard=false
>Type=KPart
>
>  I don't know why I don't have a local copy. Perhaps none needed?

To my knowledge, a user copy is not necessary or created when the 
environment matches the global plugins.rc file.

Darrell