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<!-- section history:
2009-03-19 j.h: added "User manual"
2008-04-09 Mr.Dust : added 'ko'
2007-09-29 AntI: Added 'es'
2007-03-23 KoSt: added 'no'
2006-11-01 lexa: made the file docbook compliant
2008-01-28 jpl: update text & images
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<sect2 id="gimp-prefs-help">
<title>Help System</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>Dialogs</primary>
<secondary>Preferences</secondary>
<tertiary>Help System</tertiary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>Help</primary>
</indexterm>
<figure>
<title>Help System Preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/preferences/prefs-help.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<caption>
<para>
This page lets you customize the behaviour of the
<acronym>GIMP</acronym> help system.
</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<sect3>
<title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<title>General</title>
<varlistentry>
<term>Show tool tips</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Tool tips are small help pop-ups that appear when the pointer
hovers for a moment over some element of the interface, such as a
button or icon. Sometimes they explain what the element does;
sometimes they give you hints about non-obvious ways to use it.
If you find them too distracting, you can disable them here by
unchecking this option. We recommend that you leave them enabled
unless you are a very advanced user.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Show help buttons</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This option controls whether the help buttons are shown
on every tool dialog, which may be used alternatively to
invoke the help system.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry>
<term>Show tips on start-up</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Start-up tips are helpful hints that appear each time you start
GIMP. You can switch them on or off here. If you have switched
them off by unchecking
<quote>Show tip next time GIMP starts</quote>
in the tip window, you can switch them back on by checking here.
Whatever you decide to do, at some point you should take the time
to go through the list of tips: they are considered to be very
useful, and the things they tell you are not easy to discover by
experimenting. If you prefer, you can read them at any time by
choosing
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Help</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Tip of the Day</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
in the image menu.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<varlistentry>
<term>User manual</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This drop-down list lets you select between
<guilabel>Use a locally installed copy</guilabel> and
<guilabel>Use the online version</guilabel>. See
<xref linkend="gimp-help" />.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<variablelist>
<title>Help Browser</title>
<varlistentry>
<term>Help browser to use</term>
<listitem>
<para>
GIMP Help is supplied in the form of HTML files, i. e., web pages.
You can view them using either a special help browser that comes
with GIMP, or a web browser of your choice. Here you choose which
option to use. Because the help pages were carefully checked to
make sure they work well with GIMP's browser, whereas other web
browsers are somewhat variable in their support of features, the
safer option is to use the internal browser; but really any
modern web browser should be okay.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Note that the GIMP help browser is not available on all
platforms. If it is missing, this option is hidden and the
standard web browser will be used to read the help pages.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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