Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

["Alexander Jones" <alex weej com>]

2008/7/7 Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote:
>
>> Well people apparently do want to work on a replacement... quoth Sven:
>> "We started to use webkit for the GIMP help-browser in trunk". To be
>> honest, it sounds like NIH to me.
>
> So what? GIMP has had its own help browser before yelp even existed. Now
> we ported it to a different render engine. That doesn't mean that we
> would not be willing to drop maintaining our own help browser if that
> would be an option.
>
> Overall yelp is a lot more powerful than the GIMP help-browser and it is
> also more actively developed. That's not the point. What's really
> missing is a Free Desktop standard that defines how an application can
> ask the desktop help system to show help for a specific topic. That's
> what a help system is about. The browser is just a minor component of
> that.

I understand that GIMP targets non-GNOME platforms, but I'm selfish,
and it frustrates me that we have to go through the bureaucratic
ball-ache of going through the convincing and compromising that is
necessary for an FDO standardisation. I'd prefer that we could just
focus on our own platform.

But, "fair enough".