At 03.10.2008 14:02, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 01:58 -0400, Alec Burgess wrote: > >> Clicking [Use Web Browser] changes parameter "Help browser to use:" to >> "Web browser" but does NOT open anything in my default browser (Portable >> Firefox 3) > > The code that opens the default web-browser on Windows seems to work > fine for some users, and fails for others. It would be nice if someone > who knows the Win32 API could have a look at this code and try to fix > it. But given the fact that there is hardly any contributions from users > and developers on Windows, I don't expect this to happen ever... > Sorry to here that :) By coincidence I have built the GIMP from trunk on windows recently (patches pending). I'm getting: help.exe-Warning: Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.4/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? So my guess is: at least for 2.6 this is not working for any of the windows users. As far as I know there is no GIO/win32 backend which supports http. But it should be relatively easy to restore the old win32 specific code which used ShellExecute() to open links. That should make the web-browser work for every windows user with a properly configure system. Hans -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
