Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

> 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.
Kate actually has a good maintained manual, thanks to TC. Hollingsworth and Co ;=)

But even there, it might be simpler to just link to:


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