Archive for July, 2008

webkit rules

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

For GIMP 2.6, we ported the GIMP help browser to WebKit. Works a lot better than the old version that was using gtkhtml2. The main advantage is probably that it works for online help. But WebKit has some other nice features also. Roman just added support for searching in the current page. Just press Ctrl-F [...]

online help for gimp 2.6

Monday, July 7th, 2008

One of the new features for GIMP 2.6, that I have been working on lately, is support for reading the user manual online. So far the user experience with the GIMP help system has sometimes been somewhat disappointing. The user asks for help and all she gets is an error message telling her that the [...]