Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-27 Thread Lance Dockins
I compiled GIMP 2.3.4 from tarball the other day and I've noticed a few things. 1) The last 2 times I've compiled GIMP, I've found my installation missing some key libraries at the end of the build. Is this normal? (Missing libraries differed each time) To fix it I pulled libraries from

[Gimp-developer] Re:Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread PLinnell
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontdialog/ snipped We on the Scribus Team have struggled with this too and with the changes in our 1.3.x series to enhance non-Latin support and complex glyphs will make this even more

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I compiled GIMP 2.3.4 from tarball the other day and I've noticed a few things. 1) The last 2 times I've compiled GIMP, I've found my installation missing some key libraries at the end of the build. Is this normal? (Missing libraries

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread michael chang
On 9/27/05, Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Nice proposal. A lot of apps could benefit from a good shared font selector -- it's not just an issue of one app, as you point out. I love the idea of font groupings. I don't mind editing an XML file, but I'm sure it wouldn't take much to whip up an app to help people customize their downloaded

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Alastair M. Robinson
Hi, Edward H. Trager wrote: I welcome the community's suggestions and criticisms -- One easily overlooked feature which I consider to be most important is keyboard support. In many Windows apps (and OpenOffice), I can type the first few characters into the font selector combo and that's