>> $TDEHOME/apps/kicker/applets
>> I suspect other users in the community might be bit by this bug 
too.
>I confirm the bug. Time for a new bug report I guess.

Experimenting indicates the behavior of the help handbook table of 
contents depends upon how those directories are populated. The 
user's $TDEHOME directory structure mimics the Trinity system 
directory structure. When the user's applets directory does not 
exist then there is nothing to override the system directory. All 
applet handbooks appear in the table of contents. When the user has 
an applet directory, then that directory overrides the system 
directory. When I populate the user's applet directory with 
*.desktop files from the system directory, then those items appear 
in the handbook table of contents, but only those *.desktop files I 
copy. When the user's applet directory is empty, then none appear 
in the handbook table of contents.

This makes sense but a larger question is how do the user's 
subdirectories get created in the first place? Seems to me none of 
those user directories should exist until the users starts 
customizing. Yet even then, was the original intent to mask help 
handbook entries? Probably not.

>BTW after removing the applets folder, I can only see 6 applets 
>manual. Is it all we have or are there other manuals that are not 
>displayed?

That is all I am aware that exists:

Weather Report
System Monitor
Public File Server
Color Picker
Moon Phase
Klipper

Darrell