Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

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.


Sven