GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 329888
Make the help-browser the default setting on all platforms
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:04:52 UTC
Please describe the problem: I just installed GIMP. When I press F1 or select help from the help menu, nothing happens. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install GIMP 2. Press F1 3. Actual results: Nothing Expected results: The help to open Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Is the help installed at all?
Yes it is. I should have included these details that I had put in my post to the gimpwin users group. Here are the full details: I just downloaded and installed GIMP as follows: gimp-2.2.10-i586-setup.zip gimp-gap-2.2.0-setup.zip gimp-help-2-0.9-setup.zip gtk+-2.8.9-setup-1.zip Being a newbie to image editing, I went straight for the Help menu. However, when I click the help item or press F1, all that happens is that the hourglass shows for a short while, whilst the disk spins and then nothing! The help never actually opens. Can anyone suggest anything that I can do to fix this?
Maybe the same problems which were reported in bugs #137173 and #158463?
Possibly similar to #158463. However I note that this is suggested to be closed as fixed, which it certainly doesn't seem to be. My default system browser is IE. When I try to go into the GIMP help whilst "Web Browser" is selected in the preferences, nothing happens. I do not get any window opening, nor any error message. If I change the setting to use the GIMP help browser (following the suggestion in one of the above bugs) then, provided I have not tried to open the help using the default system browser, it works. If I have tried the default system browser, then I have to shut down GIMP and restart it. So, in summary, I can now use help, but there is definately still a bug there. I would suggest that at the very least, it would be a good idea to make the GIMP help browser the default setting. HTH Paul
Oh and thank you for supplying a workaround Roman.
Is the help-browser part of the default win32 builds in the meantime? If so, we should probably make the help-browser the default setting on all platforms.
Afaik it is distributed with the help installer, but as you need this anyway: yes. So we should make it the default, at least not treat win32 differently.
Changed in both branches: 2006-02-13 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/config/gimpguiconfig.c: make the internal help browser the default for all platforms (bug #329888).