GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 168256
Help pages should have links to corresponding pages in other language
Last modified: 2012-12-05 21:49:37 UTC
There should be links to the other languages of a specific help page, at least on docs.gimp.org (preferably also for local versions). Imagine the following situation - a user reads a tutorial and searches for some terms he found in here. It's most likely that he will find the english version this way, because many GIMP tutorials are written in English. If he isn't a native english speaker, he might prefer the actual explanation of the tool, plug-in or ... in his native tongue once he figured out what the tutorial is refering to.
Reasonable idea. It's not clear that it can be implemented in a reasonable way.
Perhaps this can be implemented using the gimp-help-lookup script (as found in plug-ins/help). Given a help-id, it can lookup the associated help-page for a given language.
I was playing with the profiling and the creation of the HTML pages. If I could leave the lang attribute during profiling, it should be possible to create an extra menu during the creation of the HTML pages which lists the available other languages. But at least I'll assign this bug.
This has been implemented. The online documentation is build with the language selector enabled to switch between languages.