Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> Actually let's look as a popular ported standalone app: GTK/GNOME's
> help-browser that GIMP uses on Windows is the same as on Linux but I
> don't see it using dbus (but still webkitgtk is used). Moreover if
> someone caring for UX reads this: KDE's app help window calls itself
> KDE Help Center. Compare the complexity of KDE apps' help
> http://i.imgur.com/npgewCo.png to what GIMP has:
> http://i.imgur.com/kNKwrzK.png. I bet Krita devs won't like to share
> the help window with the KMail help (if it's even installed on
> Windows). And well, ToC (or the Home button) in that app is a ToC of
> "KDE", not the ToC of app :) You're welcome.

For Krita, we decided ages ago to simply open a browser on the userbase 
manual of Krita. Yes, it is conceivable that there are people who use
Krita without internet access who still need help, it's just not very
likely. About one complaint, maybe two in the past couple of years.

Boudewijn