Sent: 2010-08-17 21:09:07 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: pjbw

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I have just installed GIMP 2.6.10 and downloaded the manual
gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
How do I use this? My Windows XP SP2 does not know about tar.

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Sent: 2010-08-17 21:49:23 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: pjbw

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>I have just installed GIMP 2.6.10 and downloaded the manual
>gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
>How do I use this? My Windows XP SP2 does not know about tar.

I think I found the answer in the 'useless' thread. I unzipped the .bz2 file
and pasted its 'en' folder into ..\share\gimp\2.0\help\ but am now getting a
"The Help browser is missing" with a "Use Web Browser" button.
Any suggestions?

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Sent: 2010-08-18 00:56:56 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Owen

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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:49:23 +0200 (CEST)
"pjbw" wrote:

> >I have just installed GIMP 2.6.10 and downloaded the manual
> >gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
> >How do I use this? My Windows XP SP2 does not know about tar.
>
> I think I found the answer in the 'useless' thread. I unzipped
> the .bz2 file and pasted its 'en' folder into ..\share\gimp\2.0\help\
> but am now getting a "The Help browser is missing" with a "Use Web
> Browser" button. Any suggestions?

Maybe note http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html and in
particular where it says;

Note: GIMP 2.6 on Windows does not include the Help Browser plug-in,
instead your web browser is used to display the help. You may need to
go to GIMP's Preferences, click on "Help System" and select "Web
browser" under "Help Browser".

Owen

Sent: 2010-08-18 14:02:30 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: pjbw

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>On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:49:23 +0200 (CEST)
>"pjbw" wrote:
>
>> >I have just installed GIMP 2.6.10 and downloaded the manual
>> >gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
>> >How do I use this? My Windows XP SP2 does not know about tar.
>>
>> I think I found the answer in the 'useless' thread. I unzipped
>> the .bz2 file and pasted its 'en' folder into ..\share\gimp\2.0\help\
>> but am now getting a "The Help browser is missing" with a "Use Web
>> Browser" button. Any suggestions?
>
>Maybe note http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html and in
>particular where it says;
>
>Note: GIMP 2.6 on Windows does not include the Help Browser plug-in,
>instead your web browser is used to display the help. You may need to
>go to GIMP's Preferences, click on "Help System" and select "Web
>browser" under "Help Browser".
>
>
>
>Owen
Thank you Owen. That got me started.
It is working perfectly with my default Firefox browser but I would like it to
work in Internet Explorer on my secondary monitor.
The Help system says 'If you selected "Web browser", you must decide here
which browser to use, and how to invoke it, by entering the command that will
be used to run the browser.'
Can this be done for Windows XP Pro? If so, how?

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Sent: 2010-08-18 18:05:39 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Kolbjørn Stuestøl

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pjbw skreiv:
[...]
>> Thank you Owen. That got me started.
>> It is working perfectly with my default Firefox browser but I would like it to
>> work in Internet Explorer on my secondary monitor.
>> The Help system says 'If you selected "Web browser", you must decide here
>> which browser to use, and how to invoke it, by entering the command that will
>> be used to run the browser.'
>> Can this be done for Windows XP Pro? If so, how?
>>
>>
In my version of GIMP 2.6.9 on XP the drop menu "Help browser to use:"
contains two items: "The GIMP help browser" and "Web browseer". As the
help browser is not installed in the Windows version, I have to select
the web browser. This means the default browser set on the computer.
There are no possibilities to select between browsers. Perhaps some one
know how to do it by running GIMP from the (DOS) command line? These
commands (usually) are near the same as used for Linux.

Kolbjoern

Sent: 2010-08-19 16:59:29 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: pjbw

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>pjbw skreiv:
>[...]
>>> Thank you Owen. That got me started.
>>> It is working perfectly with my default Firefox browser but I would like
it to
>>> work in Internet Explorer on my secondary monitor.
>>> The Help system says 'If you selected "Web browser", you must decide here
>>> which browser to use, and how to invoke it, by entering the command that
will
>>> be used to run the browser.'
>>> Can this be done for Windows XP Pro? If so, how?
>>>
>>>
>In my version of GIMP 2.6.9 on XP the drop menu "Help browser to use:"
>contains two items: "The GIMP help browser" and "Web browseer". As the
>help browser is not installed in the Windows version, I have to select
>the web browser. This means the default browser set on the computer.
>There are no possibilities to select between browsers. Perhaps some one
>know how to do it by running GIMP from the (DOS) command line? These
>commands (usually) are near the same as used for Linux.
>
>Kolbjoern
Thank you,
I'll just have to run GIMP on my secondary monitor until I learn the basics
and until GIMP Help can send the required HTML files to a selected browser.

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Sent: 2010-08-22 14:58:03 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Sven Neumann

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On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 18:05 +0200, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote:
> pjbw skreiv:
> [...]
> >> Thank you Owen. That got me started.
> >> It is working perfectly with my default Firefox browser but I would like it to
> >> work in Internet Explorer on my secondary monitor.
> >> The Help system says 'If you selected "Web browser", you must decide here
> >> which browser to use, and how to invoke it, by entering the command that will
> >> be used to run the browser.'
> >> Can this be done for Windows XP Pro? If so, how?
> >>
> >>
> In my version of GIMP 2.6.9 on XP the drop menu "Help browser to use:"
> contains two items: "The GIMP help browser" and "Web browseer". As the
> help browser is not installed in the Windows version, I have to select
> the web browser. This means the default browser set on the computer.
> There are no possibilities to select between browsers. Perhaps some one
> know how to do it by running GIMP from the (DOS) command line? These
> commands (usually) are near the same as used for Linux.

GIMP uses the web-browser that is selected as the systems default
web-browser. And we don't intent to ever change that.

The documentation should be updated, it seems to refer to GIMP 2.2
still.

Sven