On Apr 06 Sven Neumann (sven@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Lipa <slipa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > First, the gimp-plugin-template is set up to > > use a static gimp-help.xml file that always points > > to a web address: > > > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > > <gimp-help xmlns:template="http://developer.gimp.org/plug-in-template/help";> > > <help-item template:id="plug-in-template" ref="index.html" /> > > </gimp-help> > > This is a misunderstanding. The URL given there is just a unique > identifier of the XML namespace declaration for "template:". There > doesn't need to be any page pointed to by this URL. Please read up on > XML namespaces if you want to understand this better or just ask again > here. > > I have posted detailed explanations of the help system earlier on this > list. Perhaps we should pull these out of the archives and put them > online on developer.gimp.org. > Sven: Trust me, I have tried to figure this out by reading through the old archives but I haven't been able to find anything that applies. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the gimp-devel search engine gives me nothing by error messages about not being able to find a .htaccess file or some such, so it is hard to search effectively. I have found by trial and error that if I don't have this xmlns:etc line pointing to the directory that the documentation is in, the help system simply does not work for me. The approach I am using is the only one that I have been able to get to work. I think most plug-ins will be like mine, in that they will have built-in documentation, so it might make sense for the gimp-plugin-template to have an example of how to do it right. Failing that, I was hoping to do my plug-in right so people could use it as an example. The other plug-ins I've looked at so far simply have not been any help. > The latter won't work if GIMP is not installed in the same prefix and > I don't understand your problem with the first approach. You cannot > simply install GIMP plug-ins somewhere, they need to go into the GIMP > plug-in dir which is determined from the gimp-2.0.pc file. What is > probably missing here is the addition of $(DESTDIR). I will consider > to add that. > > > Sven In the good old days, users could install plug-ins in ~/.gimp-x.x/plug-ins. Up until very recently, gimp-plugin-template (effectively) put plug-ins in ${prefix}/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins. The latest CVS version doesn't. But if you say $(GIMP_LIBDIR) will put them in the right place then that's good enough for me! -- Steve Lipa slipa@xxxxxxxxxxxx gpg fingerprint = 8B68 77D7 9E09 9991 C97E 25FF 6A12 D2B9 EC7D 66C1
