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nh

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Registered: 2008-07-09

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GIMP Help not available

I installed gimp and gimp-help-2, but when I click on Help in GIMP I get: "Could not find GIMP help browser.  The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation."

Is there an extra step to associate GIMP with its Help plug-in?  Or should it be working?

skottish

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Re: GIMP Help not available

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45059

nh

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Re: GIMP Help not available

Thanks!  I'll probably use the web browser help for now, but if I want to follow up on azleifel's suggestion should I: (a) remove gimp, (b) install libgtkhtml, and then (c) make GIMP from source using ABS?

skottish

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Re: GIMP Help not available

Thanks!  I'll probably use the web browser help for now, but if I want to follow up on azleifel's suggestion should I: (a) remove gimp, (b) install libgtkhtml, and then (c) make GIMP from source using ABS?

First just try to install libgtkhtml and possibly gtkhtml. I'm not running Gimp 2.4 so I can't test it.

By the way, I don't think I said hi yet. Welcome to the forums.

nh

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Re: GIMP Help not available

Hi, and thanks for the welcome!  I'm certainly finding this a helpful and friendly forum.

I've tried it with libgtkhtml, to no avail.  I'll try gtkhtml as well...

azleifel

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Re: GIMP Help not available

Thanks!  I'll probably use the web browser help for now, but if I want to follow up on azleifel's suggestion should I: (a) remove gimp, (b) install libgtkhtml, and then (c) make GIMP from source using ABS?

If you really want the help browser then I don't think that there's any way to get it without building from source with libgtkhtml installed but there's no need to uninstall gimp first, just do a pacman -U with the new package.

skottish

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Re: GIMP Help not available

Thanks!  I'll probably use the web browser help for now, but if I want to follow up on azleifel's suggestion should I: (a) remove gimp, (b) install libgtkhtml, and then (c) make GIMP from source using ABS?

If you really want the help browser then I don't think that there's any way to get it without building from source with libgtkhtml installed but there's no need to uninstall gimp first, just do a pacman -U with the new package.

Hmmm? Why would the help package be in the repos if it doesn't work with GIMP in the repos?

azleifel

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Re: GIMP Help not available

The help package is usable without GIMP's own help browser, it just needs the Help System -> Help Browser preference set to "Web browser".  Why it's been set up this way I do not know.  EDIT: Is this worth a bug report?

Last edited by azleifel (2008-07-31 21:54:42)

skottish

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Re: GIMP Help not available

The help package is usable without GIMP's own help browser, it just needs the Help System -> Help Browser preference set to "Web browser".  Why it's been set up this way I do not know.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I do know that the version that's shipping with GIMP 2.6 is going to use Webkit and not gtkhtml. It's strange watching the GIMP core slowly become detached from GTK.

Last edited by skottish (2008-07-31 21:52:43)