A Friend just contacted me over email to let me know that in 20.04 this
is still an issue for them...
I am unsure how they got the error message for this, but here is a
screenshot they sent me.
The error message reads
> Could not open 'https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading:
All right. It actually works with gvfs-backends package installed, but
it refuses to download images using HTTPS. I have to use plain HTTP to
download the image.
But then again, not having gvfs-backends installed by default adds an
extra step to having GIMP working with all features.
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