Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 15:17, Sven Neumann wrote: could you explain how you tried to find out? I can't really imagine what difficulties you had and it would be interesting to know. I browsed things for a bit, and I think I know the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, so I misjudged the state of development Gimp is in. I remember trying to find out some time ago how hard it would be to contribute things to Gimp, but I gave up pretty soon. could you explain how you tried to find out? I can't really

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-28 Thread Lourens Veen
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 15:17, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, so I misjudged the state of development Gimp is in. I remember trying to find out some time ago how hard it would be to contribute things to Gimp, but I gave up pretty soon. could

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Robert L Krawitz
From: Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:12:27 +0100 Last thingy, about professional use of Gimp, isn't this a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing? I can't imagine anyone using a program that doesn't do CMYK, serious halftoning and easy font work (with the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Seth Burgess
I think the problem we have here is that there's quite a big difference between the developers and the users of the program. The people who make open source racing games probably do that because they like to play racing games as well. The average Gimp developer seems to do it because they

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Seth Burgess
Mitch, Sven.. when you have time.. Can you make a to do for developers that want to help? Already done. See TODO.xml Seth __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Rebecca J. Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mitch, Sven.. when you have time.. Can you make a to do for developers that want to help? http://developer.gimp.org/gimp-todo.html it's generated from TODO.xml as found in the source tree. Doesn't cover everything that needs to be done, but it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Lourens Veen
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 14:50, Seth Burgess wrote: snip Allow me to correct some impressions... Very little has happened recently in the way of scripts or filters; saying that gimp developers concentrate on that is ridiculous. Sorry, my bad. Jargon problem it seems. In Gimp, scripts and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Avi Bercovich
Lourens Veen wrote: Last thingy, about professional use of Gimp, isn't this a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing? I can't imagine anyone using a program that doesn't do CMYK, serious halftoning and easy font work (with the added note that my X server crashes regularly on TrueType fonts rendered

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Kelly Martin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:10:47PM +0100, Avi Bercovich wrote: CMYK, halftoning etc. would be nice indeed, but possibly a Photoshop xcf plugin might be easier? I don't know of any GIMP developer willing to spend the $$$ to get the SDK for Photoshop. -- I love

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Avi Bercovich wrote: eh I work as a webdesigner in an Amsterdam based 'top tier' New Media company. I do little in the way of print graphics thus this may be a bit off-topic... But, all my work is done in GNU/Linux in GIMP, whilst my co-workers use Macs and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Branko Collin
On 27 Nov 2001, at 10:39, Kelly Martin wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:10:47PM +0100, Avi Bercovich wrote: CMYK, halftoning etc. would be nice indeed, but possibly a Photoshop xcf plugin might be easier? I don't know of any GIMP developer willing to spend the $$$ to get the SDK for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Avi Bercovich
Kelly Martin wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:10:47PM +0100, Avi Bercovich wrote: CMYK, halftoning etc. would be nice indeed, but possibly a Photoshop xcf plugin might be easier? I don't know of any GIMP developer willing to spend the $$$ to get the SDK for Photoshop. what $$$ are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Branko Collin writes: Maybe I am mistaken about this, but it would seem that Adobe offers the Photoshop SDK and the Photoshop file format specifications for free download at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/gapsdk/PhotoshopSDK.html. Yep. Except that they don't document the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-26 Thread Lourens Veen
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:18, Branko Collin wrote: snip 3. A page on the GIMP site should be dedicated to the topic of How to transition from Photoshop to the GIMP successfully. The community would be a lot larger if more people realized that 'you get what you pay