Solved GIMP 3 and gimp-help-en

fernandel

fernandel

Look like that never press 'help" in GIMP but today I try and it doesn't works off line and not online.
I got:

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I have installed gimp-help-en but I am using packages. Is it possible with some settings to use offline, please?
 
I have a basic GIMP 3 installation but help for me works (online and in italian) selecting help from menu or pressing F1. In configuration is selected online version (Usa la versione online), opens in browser (Firefox), LANG=it_IT.UTF-8.
 
I don't recommend using national language locales at all. I've been using only English for a long time. What's the point of these crappy localizations? All Russian programs and interfaces have always looked bad to me, even on mainstream Linux distributions. Sometimes the letters would shift, sometimes in GIMP, half the interface would be translated to the local locale and the other half would be in English. It's easier to learn English at the program level and not bother with locales. There aren't that many English words there. It's not a spoken language. I haven't experienced any discomfort for a long time.
 
Looks like I need to install gvfs but it pull 43 packages more.
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I can survive without help :).

Thank you.
 
freethread said:
Yes, bookmark the gimp site help in the browser
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Did you build GIMP from ports or do you using packages?
I did play to open offline but all the time complain that is not installed in my language. I did change language and rename /usr/local/share/doc/gimp-help/"language" and didn't work.
 
USerID said:
I don't recommend using national language locales at all. I've been using only English for a long time. What's the point of these crappy localizations? All Russian programs and interfaces have always looked bad to me, even on mainstream Linux distributions. Sometimes the letters would shift, sometimes in GIMP, half the interface would be translated to the local locale and the other half would be in English. It's easier to learn English at the program level and not bother with locales. There aren't that many English words there. It's not a spoken language. I haven't experienced any discomfort for a long time.
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Well, I have no problem read english, talking is another story, I need at least 2 or 3 weeks in a english speaking country to be fluent, then when I back to home for a long period I forget it. Only strict tech english I do not forget.

In early days when I start working as firmware developer the computer language was english only and the same on the web. Today is usual to have a localized environment, sometimes this is not a good thing expecially if you have a technical coversation about user interface menus and commands. For some languages like russian, there should be translation problems, also due to font characters.
 
USerID said:
I don't recommend using national language locales at all. I've been using only English for a long time. What's the point of these crappy localizations? All Russian programs and interfaces have always looked bad to me, even on mainstream Linux distributions. Sometimes the letters would shift, sometimes in GIMP, half the interface would be translated to the local locale and the other half would be in English. It's easier to learn English at the program level and not bother with locales. There aren't that many English words there. It's not a spoken language. I haven't experienced any discomfort for a long time.
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The point of them is to have something that's at least partially usable to people that speak other languages. And, I'm sure they do accept patches from anybody that does understand the languages, the bar to actually doing it is fairly low. Personally, I use OCR software at first when I'm using an interface in a language I either don't speak or one where I know very little.
 
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