On 29/3/11 12:26, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 3/29/11, ~suv wrote:
The externally developed 'JessyInk' extension (bundled with Inkscape 0.48) is another example to use a second tab for the help text in each of its dialogs.
Is there any reason we can't introduce a simple Webkit based help browser that would just open a small window next to extension's dialog on demand and show nicely formatted text? GIMP uses IDs for actions to figure out which .html file to open in every context. Well, we do have verbs, don't we?
I have never seen GIMP's help browser in action (as far as I know it has been broken for quite some time now, at least in stable versions ported to Windows and OSX).
If implemented without any additional Gnome deps (dbus, gconf, gsetting or dconf, or whatever module Gnome apps use for it) - why not (though personally I'm glad it's not yet another window floating around, instead just a compact tab in the dialog you can ignore if not needed, and would rather see efforts spent on making those dialogs dockable, possibly combined with a new widget giving quicker access to the items from the nested menus for effects/extensions [1]). Or did you intend to propose the implementation of a new help system for Inkscape itself, not only limited to extensions?
~suv
[1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/long-menu-accessibility