Hello On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: > >> > The GIMP should really use the GNOME help browser instead of > >> > reinventing the wheel. > >> Will it be possible to get just the wheel without the rest of the car? > >Maybe I'm not the right person to say this, but WTF... > >What is the matter with the GIMP developers ? What is this adversion to > >GNOME ? > > I am feed up of having to install full packages just to get one thing. With > some distros, this becomes even worse. And as I, there must be more people. Well thats why we want to have only GtkXmHTML installed and only if it's needed. > >Why not allow the user to choose his/her browser of choice ? > >With Netscape, Mozilla, the Gnome Help Browser, kfm, or even > >Lynx in an xterm as possible choices, I don't see any problem with this... > > Now that are wise words: the user decides which browser. Lot of adventages, > and I do not see any disadventage (no HTML custom tricks? all HTML docs > should be "any browser", even if the browser is one with speaker for blind > people). > > So Gimp help should be a set of HTML files and a small exec to launch the > preferred browser (calling process already running if needed, a la moz remote). It's not wise words (it totally ¤%#"#¤% #¤!23 words ;-). Lynx is not doable (we need pictures)!!! Some may not want to install KDE or GNOME. Others may have not have a computer powerful enough to run both Gimp (at full speed) and Netscape/Mozilla at the same time or they maybe not want to install it. This leaves us only one option if we want to be independent of a lot of _really_ big packages. Cheers Olof
