Re: help browser plan

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 18:30, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 18:22, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > On 26 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > > Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes: 
> > > > Right now, the top 3 candidates, mozilla, gtkhtml1 and gtkhtml2, all
> > > > sound like they won't be ready in time.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Well, there are two mitigating factors for help browser:
> > > 
> > >  - the lib doesn't need to be API/ABI frozen, it can be "internal"
> > >  - it only needs to display our usual DocBook output, it doesn't have
> > >    to handle arbitrary web pages
> > 
> > Yes. This leads me to belive that GtkHTML2 is an excellent choice. It is 
> > already ported to gtk+ 2 (was written for it even), and it already handles 
> > many web pages, so I don't think the DocBook output will be any problem.
> > 
> > GtkHtml1 needs porting to Gnome 2, and Mozilla needs porting to Gtk2 if it 
> > is to be embedded.
> >  
> > > Shipping sans help browser isn't an option really (though using the
> > > one in Nautilus is an option, I'm not sure it makes things easier).
> > 
> > There will be no nautilus one unless someone ports Mozilla to gtk 2, or 
> > someone ports bonobo 2 to gtk 1.2.
> 
> If we can get gtkhtml2 stablized and such, couldn't it replace Mozilla
> in the GNOME 2 nautilus?

Can someone suggest how I might go about contributing testing to
the gtkhtml2?  Are there apps out there using it now?  I have reported
many gtkhtml1 bugs and would be glad to help gtkhtml2, if I can get
a test platform built and installed.

	Miles