Re: GIMP is useless without a usable installable help.

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Kolbjørn Stuestøl skreiv:
> Michael Schumacher skreiv:
>   
>> On 13.06.2010 18:38, Jack K. wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> What possible value could there be to further developing the GIMP application
>>> when ordinary users cannot use it because the HELP documentation cannot be
>>> made to install and then work in Windows?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Huh? As far as I know, the help is installable on Windows and works fine.
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>   
>>     
> Yes, but unlike most Windows applications, you have to do the 
> installation yourself. The proses is a bit unusual to Windows users, 
> quite common to Linux users.
>
> Download the wanted help file to your computer from 
> ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/. The .bz2 file is a zipped file. Unzip 
> it using your zip program.
> In the GIMP folder share/gimp/2.0 create a folder named help. Copy the 
> two letters language folder in the unzipped catalog to the help folder. 
> (The other files is of no use in this case). In my version of Windows 
> the full path in my computer is .../share/gimp/2.0/help/nn.
>
> BTW: Somebody know why is the help files in http://www.gimp.org/docs/ 
> are not updated? The Norwegian help files is still pointing to 
> http://www.gimp.org/docs/2.6/no which is not updated anymore and do not 
> exist in the git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2 repository. Instead it should be 
> pointing to .../2.6/nn which exists in the repository.
> Kolbjoern
>   
I forgot: Neither the ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/ is updated for 
any language.
Kolbjoern
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