Online documentation.
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| Online documentation. | john Culleton | 12 Dec 14:36 |
| Online documentation. | rich | 13 Dec 09:37 |
| Online documentation. | john Culleton | 13 Dec 17:34 |
Online documentation.
Using 2.6.11 on a Slackware 13.37 system. I have documentation
located in /usr/doc/gimp-2.6.11. but when I attempt to access the
Gimp manual I get this message:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported
Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? -------------------------------------------------------------
ON further investigation these seem to be Gnome packages. Not everyone uses Gnome. So this seems to be an unnecessary dependency. I run KDE and XFCE, not Gnome. And my experience is that if I download one package it will require something else etc.
The ftp versions seem to be related to 2.6.0, not 2.6.11
Is there a way to install or access current documentation without getting involved with loading a bunch of Gnome packages?
Online documentation.
Using 2.6.11 on a Slackware 13.37 system. I have documentation located in /usr/doc/gimp-2.6.11. but when I attempt to access the Gimp manual I get this message:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported
Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? -------------------------------------------------------------
ON further investigation these seem to be Gnome packages. Not everyone uses Gnome. So this seems to be an unnecessary dependency. I run KDE and XFCE, not Gnome. And my experience is that if I download one package it will require something else etc.
The ftp versions seem to be related to 2.6.0, not 2.6.11
Is there a way to install or access current documentation without getting involved with loading a bunch of Gnome packages?
Nothing to do with Gnome, Gimp help is all html, so the linux files are the same as the windows files are the same as (KDE, E17, ... Gnome)
For on-line help use http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/ in your web browser to see if you can connect.
For a locally installed help, check Gimp -> preferences -> help system and see if local files are enabled and the correct browser is set.
AFAIK the location of the start up file for a local Gimp help should be (depending on language) /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html
As for being up to date, everything to do with how the slackware repo is maintained. The Gimp 2.6 manual is work in progress so use the online version if you need the latest. I think this is ver.2.6.1 and does not follow the Gimp version number.
I don't bother these days with installing help but in the past when my installed version was lagging behind, dumped the web site to a local drive with wget -r -p -np http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/ then grafted the files into the Gimp help directory.
Online documentation.
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:37:18 +0100 rich wrote:
As for being up to date, everything to do with how the slackware repo is maintained. The Gimp 2.6 manual is work in progress so use the online version if you need the latest. I think this is ver.2.6.1 and does not follow the Gimp version number.
I don't bother these days with installing help but in the past when my installed version was lagging behind, dumped the web site to a local drive with wget -r -p -np http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/ then grafted the files into the Gimp help directory.
When in doubt rebuild everything. After much fussing around I wiped out the .gimp-2.6 file from my home directory. Then I downloaded the 2.6.11 source in bzip form. Then I went through the usual machinations. When I restarted gimp it couldn't find the documentation locally but offered me the option to use the online html version. I chose that option and that is what is working now.
I suspect there was something in my .gimp-2.6 directory that was left over from a Salix download of gimp and that was messing things up. But in any case when I click the Help->Gimp Manual button I go to the web page version automatically and instantly via Firefox. This is the latest anyhow.
Thanks for your help.
