Hi,

Stephen Gladstone writes:

Hi to Gimp users,
Downloaded gimp a month ago and enjoy using it. Get lots of great advice from reading on line tuts and reading all your mails. Me being a newbie this helped as at first it all seemed a bit daunting, i did not even know what open source meant :-) Anyways i digress i am using gimp 2.0.3 and i reacently downloaded helpfiles and installed without any probs but when i click on help menu the busy icon comes up for a few seconds and then nothing no error messages no help. If i go into the help directory and double click on one of the files it comes up in my internet browser like it should do if i where to click on the help menu. I think the solution is probably something to do with my browser, i am using mozilla thunderbird.

Your mail has quite an interesting text layout...

What's the setting for the help-browser in the prefs dialog?

Sven

Hi Sven,
Thank's for taking time to answer.The setting in prefs dialog is set to web browser, if i change it to internal i get-could not find Gimp help browser procedure.It probablywas not compiled because you dont have GtkHtml installed. Im not sure what happend to text layout i have just started using Thunderbird for mail.
Stephen

Hi,

stepg writes:

The setting in prefs dialog is set to web browser.

Well, and what's the setting for the web broswer?

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

stepg writes:

The setting in prefs dialog is set to web browser.

Well, and what's the setting for the web broswer?

Sven

Okay now i am going from stupid to really stupid but i have the setting set to web browser, i cant find any means to change this to a specific browser. Firefox is set as my default browser . Stephen.

Hi,

stepg writes:

Okay now i am going from stupid to really stupid but i have the setting set to web browser, i cant find any means to change this to a specific browser. Firefox is set as my default browser.

Right below the Help Browser configuration there's an entry that allows you to specify what Web Browser to use. You will want to put the proper call there, something like for example "mozilla %s".

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

stepg writes:

Okay now i am going from stupid to really stupid but i have the setting set to web browser, i cant find any means to change this to a specific browser. Firefox is set as my default browser.

Right below the Help Browser configuration there's an entry that allows you to specify what Web Browser to use. You will want to put the proper call there, something like for example "mozilla %s".

This might be platform-dependent - e.g. on Win32, there is nothing else than the dropdown box... which seems to be kind of redundant, too, because there is no internal help on this platform.

HTH, Michael

Hi,

Michael Schumacher writes:

This might be platform-dependent - e.g. on Win32, there is nothing else than the dropdown box... which seems to be kind of redundant, too, because there is no internal help on this platform.

I don't see any reason why the internal help browser shouldn't build on the Win32 platform. I might be wrong but I'd be surprised if libgtkhtml2 can't be build on Win32.

Sven