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firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 552

GIMP Help Browser

Hello. I have a question about gimps's help browser.

When I press Help > Help or just F1 it says it can't find gimp help browser. Selecting a web browser works fine. I have installed gimp-help-2. Also there is an executable file called help to /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plugins. What is wrong?

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azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: GIMP Help Browser

I found this too and investigated a little.  It turns out that the gimp help browser depends on gtkhtml-2 (the relevant Arch package is libgtkhtml) but the PKGBUILD does not include libgtkhtml as a dependency and so the gimp help browser does not get built.  Out of curiosity, I recompiled gimp with libgtkhtml installed and the help browser works, though I'm not sure that I gained any really useful functionality for the time and effort it took!