[Gimp-docs] GIMP help in 2.6

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

I'd like to point out some changes and new features in GIMP 2.5.1
affecting the GIMP help system. I'd love if some of you guys could give
it some testing and give feedback.

The help browser has been ported from gtkhtml2 to WebKit. It now does a
much better job at rendering the user manual. While doing the port, I
have also streamlined the user interface further and the help browser is
now even more compact and hopefully easier to use.

The user manual can now be used online. There's an option in the
Preferences dialog for this. When selected, the user does not need to
install the gimp-help package and the context help will access the
online user manual directly. The plan for GIMP 2.6 is to make this even
easier and to ask the user if the online version should be used when she
tries to access the help for the first time and no local copy of the
user manual is installed.

I hope you will like these changes.


Sven