Apologies if this has been asked on the list before, but I have searched the topic lines of the list archive and the Kernel Traffic Gimp news thingies to no avail. I'm currently writing a frontend to the PostgreSQL and mySQL database engines that uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit. I want to include a help system, and in terms of features the Gimp one is ideal for my purposes. Has anyone looked at packaging the helpbrowser module for non-Gimp applications? I would email the helpbrowser writer/maintainer directly, but I can't find who's responsible for it. I'm assuming that to use it away from the Gimp would currently require some dependency on the Gimp support libraries, the GtkXmHTML library and a bit of dlopen() magic. These are things I'm happy to live with if it doesn't mean writing my own help system from scratch. I don't want to upgrade my app to a full Gnome one, as I use computers that are a bit slow when running the Gnome environment. Plus I don't really rate the current Gnome help browser. Any technical hints or pointers on previous attempts to do this would be greatly appreciatted, as I'm am currently reading the code - and it's not as simple an undertaking as I hoped! Chris -- the humor dial's lowest setting
