Hi, I think we should discuss how to proceed with the help system for gimp2. I saw that Roman started to work on a german translation and of course I am happy about this since it means that something happens. However I think that it doesn't make much sense to blindly work on the help pages until we figured out how the help will be integrated into gimp2 and how it should be structured. Otherwise we will have to move files around a lot and will probably waste efforts. Translation of the help pages is another subject that should be discussed beforehand. I don't think the current approach of translating the XML source in place will scale well when the number of translations increases. There are some tools available that automate the process of extracting translatable strings from XML sources and merging the translations back. We should consider to use them. Perhaps this mail can get a discussion started. We should also try to involve more people early. I suggest we ask for volunteers on the gimp-user list and other user forums. Sven
