Re: help browser plan

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 26Nov2001 09:22PM (-0500), 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.

Sounds good to me, but someone should clear this with the gtkhtml2 maintainers.
  
> > 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.
> 

Or someone writes a GtkHTML2 nautilus view (probably the easiest of
the three options).

Regards,

Maciej