Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Mike Clarke wrote:

> gimp-help-2.4.1 worked OK with 2.4 but perhaps it's not compatible with
> 2.6. (I see from www.gimp.org that work is in progress on updating the
> user manual for GIMP 2.6) so I thought I'd switch over to the online
> help but then I got the following error message:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading:
> Operation not supported
>
> Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have gio-fam-backend-2.16.5 and gvfs-0.2.5 installed.

With the same ports but also py25-gimp-app-2.6.1, it works here.  Gimp 
settings:

   User Manual: Use the online version
   Help browser to use: Web browser
   Web browser to use: firefox3 %s

> This isn't restricted to just the online help, gimp won't load any file
> via http.

Hadn't tried opening an image URL before, but that seems to work here as 
well.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA