Hi, > Guys, I strongly suggest that libgtkxmhtml *NOT* be used for > the help browser. > Please, not again. Here´s what I think was the result of the latest thread on this subject: The helpbrowser will stay as it is (using GtkXmHtml) as long as there´s no useable alternative. As soon as a better, less depending, small and fast html-widget is there, we´ll consider porting the helpbrowser to that interface. The help-system will in its final state give the choice to use whatever HTML-Browser the user prefers as long as it provides an interface similar to "netscape -remote". The necessary changes to the Help system will appear as soon as Mitch, me or someone else finds the time to do them. For the problem of packaging The GIMP I´d suggest to create a seperate gimp-gnome package that contains the help-browser and the gimp.desktop file so that the main package can be installed w/o the dependency on gnome. > > Is there any alternative? I've heard talk of a non-GNOME-based > gtkxmhtml, but I don't know anything about it. > The gtkhtml package looked promising at the first look, but it appears to really depend deeply on GNOME, while the only thing that makes gtkxmhtml a gnome-thing is that it comes bundled with gnome (but does not make use of any gnome-specific features). Thus an alternative would be to release a gtkxmhtml package and put it up on ftp.gimp.org. Salut, Sven
