2008/7/7 Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: > >> Well people apparently do want to work on a replacement... quoth Sven: >> "We started to use webkit for the GIMP help-browser in trunk". To be >> honest, it sounds like NIH to me. > > So what? GIMP has had its own help browser before yelp even existed. Now > we ported it to a different render engine. That doesn't mean that we > would not be willing to drop maintaining our own help browser if that > would be an option. > > Overall yelp is a lot more powerful than the GIMP help-browser and it is > also more actively developed. That's not the point. What's really > missing is a Free Desktop standard that defines how an application can > ask the desktop help system to show help for a specific topic. That's > what a help system is about. The browser is just a minor component of > that.
I understand that GIMP targets non-GNOME platforms, but I'm selfish, and it frustrates me that we have to go through the bureaucratic ball-ache of going through the convincing and compromising that is necessary for an FDO standardisation. I'd prefer that we could just focus on our own platform. But, "fair enough". _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
