Q: GtkHTMLx Situation

[Martin Fischer <yg2004 schmalspur inka de>]

Hi there,

currently I'm working on a GTK application for model railroad design. 
See http://www.xtrkcad.org/ in case you're interested. As it is, XTrkCad 
is a strict GTK application. It doesn't rely on Gnome or any other 
external libraries.

My current activity is to improve the help system. My preferred way of 
writing the docs would be to use HTML. So I spent some time 
investigating the miscellanous options for adding HTML support to my app.

Judging from what I found out my alternatives are:

GtkHTML2: not maintained, probably around for a long time anyway, Gtk 
only library, no documentation, buggy and memory leaks

GtkHTML3: work seems to be ongoing, requires GNOME (for printing), a 
little documentation is available.

I understand that there are differences in HTML/CSS support. As I have 
full control over the HTML that's not a big issue for me.

So my question: is that assessment correct? I found somewhere that work 
is ongoing to move GtkHTML3 to GtkPrint, which would remove the 
dependency on GNOME. Is that change still on the way?

Currently I'm thinking about starting with GtkHTML2 and moving to 
GtkHTML3 once GtkPrint is supported. I already coded some basic 
functionality so I'm pretty confident that I will be able to implement 
all I need.

Does all that sound reasonable? Where would I find a place to post 
questions that might arise in my attempts to use GtkHTML3?

Any ideas, help and pointers are welcome.

Regards
Martin