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Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

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Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) Alec Burgess 09 Nov 02:16
  Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) Alec Burgess 09 Nov 02:55
   Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) David Hodson 09 Nov 03:11
    Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) Alec Burgess 09 Nov 03:42
     Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) Michael Schumacher 09 Nov 10:38
  Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?) Sven Neumann 09 Nov 15:21
Alec Burgess
2008-11-09 02:16:57 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

I saw a request in Bugzilla that someone show output for "gimp --verbose" command and being naturally curious ran it myself. (see output below)

(1) One thing caught my attention in it: =========
(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gtk-file'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from:
http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
=========
checking the site referenced above I see a "bunch" of tar.gz files, most recent being:
-- hicolor-icon-theme-0.10.tar.gz 22-Nov-2006 04:02 33K

Question: does this indicate something that should have been done in the build for the windows installer?

(2) Gimp internal help browser - BUMP I asked on the dev list and never got an answer - probably because I posted in the Announce-thread for 2.6.2 =========
I'm still seeing the same Help-Internal browser problem:

The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages.

I thought that this was something required some tweak to the Windows build and was going to be fixed for 2.6.2. Did I misunderstand? ===========
FWIW: Now, even when I set preferences to "use online help" and "use web browser" its not opening in browser. (default browser Firefox-portable, WinXP SP3)

Any suggestions?

(3) I have another question about overriding Folders-Plugins (GAP related) I'll post in a new thread.

======= output from "gimp-2.6.exe --verbose" INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\unitrc' Parsing 'D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\etc\gimp\2.0\gimprc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\gimprc' gimp_composite: use=yes, verbose=no
Processor instruction sets: +mmx +sse +sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis Adding theme 'Default' (D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\share\gimp\2.0\themes\Default) Adding theme 'Small' (D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\share\gimp\2.0\themes\Small) Writing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\themerc' Trying splash 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\gimp-splash.png' ... failed
Trying splash 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\share\gimp\2.0\images\gimp-splash.png' ... OK INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
INIT: gui_initialize_after_callback
INIT: gimp_restore
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\parasiterc' Loading 'brush factory' data
Loading 'pattern factory' data
Loading 'palette factory' data
Loading 'gradient factory' data
Loading fonts
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\templaterc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\modulerc' INIT: gui_restore_callback
clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/bmp clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/x-bmp clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/x-MS-bmp clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/png clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/x-icon clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/x-ico clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/x-win-bitmap clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/tiff clipboard: writable pixbuf format: image/jpeg Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\sessionrc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\dockrc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\toolrc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\contextrc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-rect-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-rect-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-ellipse-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-ellipse-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-free-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-free-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-fuzzy-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-fuzzy-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-by-color-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-by-color-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-iscissors-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-iscissors-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-foreground-select-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-foreground-select-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-vector-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-vector-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-color-picker-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-color-picker-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-zoom-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-zoom-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-measure-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-measure-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-move-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-move-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-align-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-align-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-crop-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-crop-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-rotate-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-rotate-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-scale-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-scale-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-shear-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-shear-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-perspective-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-perspective-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-flip-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-flip-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-text-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-text-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-bucket-fill-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-bucket-fill-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-blend-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-blend-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-pencil-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-pencil-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-paintbrush-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-paintbrush-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-eraser-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-eraser-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-airbrush-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-airbrush-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-ink-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-ink-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-clone-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-clone-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-heal-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-heal-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-perspective-clone-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-perspective-clone-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-convolve-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-convolve-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-smudge-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-smudge-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-dodge-burn-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-dodge-burn-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-desaturate-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-desaturate-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-color-balance-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-color-balance-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-hue-saturation-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-hue-saturation-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-colorize-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-colorize-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-brightness-contrast-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-brightness-contrast-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-threshold-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-threshold-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-levels-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-levels-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-curves-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-curves-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-posterize-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-posterize-tool.presets' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-gegl-tool' Parsing 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\tool-options\gimp-gegl-tool.presets' INIT: gimp_real_restore
Skipping duplicate plug-in: 'D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\gap_plugins.exe' Skipping duplicate plug-in: 'D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\gap_video_extract.exe' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\pluginrc' Querying plug-in: 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pyconsole.py'

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error
Initializing plug-in: 'D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\plug-ins\pspi.exe' Writing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\pluginrc' Starting extension: 'extension-script-fu' INIT: gui_restore_after_callback
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\menurc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\devicerc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\controllerrc' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\colorrc' loading menu 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\share\gimp\2.0\menus\image-menu.xml' for /image-menubar

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gtk-file'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from:
http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
Writing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\gimprc' Writing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\gimprc' Writing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\gimprc'

Alec Burgess
2008-11-09 02:55:04 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

Alec Burgess (buralex@gmail.com) wrote (in part) (on 2008-11-08 at 20:16):

(3) I have another question about overriding Folders-Plugins (GAP related) I'll post in a new thread.

Followup: turns out there is no problem here ...

I was confused by what the following lines were telling me: ==========
INIT: gimp_real_restore
Skipping duplicate plug-in: 'D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\gap_plugins.exe' Skipping duplicate plug-in: 'D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\gap_video_extract.exe' Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\pluginrc' Querying plug-in: 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pyconsole.py'

(gimp-2.6.exe:1408): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error
Initializing plug-in: 'D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\plug-ins\pspi.exe' ==========
On closer examination I see that it is doing what it should - skipping the GAP related plugins in:
D:\Program Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\ put there by the GAP 2.4 installer and using instead the (newer) plugins gap_plugins.exe and gap_video_extract.exe found at:
Gap2.4 BugFix Files by =photocomix-resources http://photocomix-resources.deviantart.com/art/Gap2-4-BugFix-Files-77466242 which I deliberately put in a separate location so I wouldn't lose them if installing a new GIMP-2.6.x version subsequently.

However I'm still confused by: "LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error"
Does this indicate a real problem?

Googling [gimp_wire_read] I see a number of posts (apparently related to GTK and/or Python and mostly MAC related) Searching Bugzilla for [gimp_wire_read] I find two hits: (1) Bug 483502 -- Save as dialog comes up empty on second use (2) Bug 551243 -- crash in GNU Image Manipulation Program: I had just clicked on "s...
Both: Product: gtk+ Component: GtkFileChooser Version: 2.12.x Status: UNCONFIRMED

Above are on Unix systems. I haven't seen any errors associated with above but wonder if the warning message in --verbose output indicates something just waiting to get triggered?

David Hodson
2008-11-09 03:11:03 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 20:55 -0500, Alec Burgess wrote:

However I'm still confused by: "LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error"
Does this indicate a real problem?

gimp_wire_read(): error is usually what you get when the plugin crashes while talking to the main Gimp process. It's not a good thing.

-- David

Alec Burgess
2008-11-09 03:42:26 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

David Hodson (hodsond@ozemail.com.au) wrote (in part) (on 2008-11-08 at 21:11):

However I'm still confused by: "LibGimpBase-WARNING **:

gimp-2.6.exe:
> > gimp_wire_read(): error"
> > Does this indicate a real problem?

gimp_wire_read(): error is usually what you get when the plugin crashes
while talking to the main Gimp process. It's not a good thing.

Hmmm ... so:
======
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\pluginrc' Querying plug-in: 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pyconsole.py'

(gimp-2.6.exe:5912): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error
======
probably indicates something wrong with my Gimp-python install? At least some Python plugins appear to be working. Is there any way to pin this down enough to file a meaningful bugzilla report?

Filters - python-fu - console shows: ====
GIMP 2.6.2 Python Console
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >>>
===
but I don't know what I *ought* to be able to do in it :-(

Michael Schumacher
2008-11-09 10:38:05 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

Alec Burgess wrote:

Hmmm ... so:
======
Parsing 'C:\Documents and Settings\Alec\.gimp-2.6\pluginrc' Querying plug-in: 'D:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.6\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\pyconsole.py'

(gimp-2.6.exe:5912): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.6.exe: gimp_wire_read(): error
======
probably indicates something wrong with my Gimp-python install?

It does indicate that your platform does not support execute bits - pyconsole.py is not supposed to be run when GIMP starts, and the missing bit prevents this on other platforms.

Other than this message there are no ill effects.

HTH, Michael

Sven Neumann
2008-11-09 15:21:36 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Windows 2.6.2 installer problem(s) - ATTN: Jernej(?)

Hi,

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 20:16 -0500, Alec Burgess wrote:

(1) One thing caught my attention in it: =========
(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gtk-file'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from:
http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed

(gimp-2.6.exe:4928): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
=========
checking the site referenced above I see a "bunch" of tar.gz files, most recent being:
-- hicolor-icon-theme-0.10.tar.gz 22-Nov-2006 04:02 33K

Question: does this indicate something that should have been done in the build for the windows installer?

The GTK+ file-chooser probably uses the icons from the hicolor theme. No idea if it should use windows system icons on Windows or if it would be better to include the icon theme in the installer.

(2) Gimp internal help browser - BUMP

No idea what you mean by "BUMP".

I'm still seeing the same Help-Internal browser problem:

The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages.

I thought that this was something required some tweak to the Windows build and was going to be fixed for 2.6.2. Did I misunderstand?

Absolutely. The help-browser plug-in is not included in the installer and this is not likely going to change. Not until someone manages to build webkit on Windows.

Sven