So what exactly does this do? Does it lock GIMP 2.6 onto your machine and not allow you to upgrade to 2.8, or what?
Sorry, I'm mainly a Windows user :P Sent from my iPod On Jul 27, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Dirk <noi...@pwnoogle.com> wrote: > Hello, > > it has now been months that Gimp developers seem to have decided that their > "product vision" in Gimp2.8 (debian/unstable) is more relevant than the > workflow of their users. > > People who use Gimp *a lot* keep clicking "Save as" instead of "Export" > because that is what they're used to. Because it is natural. > > If you think that it is trivial to make that workflow mistake over and over - > then you are a casual Gimp user and can stop reading. > > If you use Google and search for "export save gimp" you can witness what > happens when marketing takes over the development. > > There seems to be this product-vision-apologetics that they can ignore their > users because they are not getting paid by them anyway. Old user will just be > replaced by new users. Nobody will notice that transition except in the > feedback, which isn't monetary but just a few angry posts in the internet. > > Since Debian (like all other distributions) will have to (or has to) update > to Gimp2.8 in the stable branch I dedicated a chroot jail to Gimp2.6 and will > explain here how you can do it yourself. > > Creating a chroot jail for a single application is very easy. > > > # the directory in which the chroot jail will exist > mkdir chroot_gimp2.6 > # run debootstrap it will install a minimal debian and gimp2.6 > # this will take a while > debootstrap --variant=minbase --include=gimp squeeze chroot_gimp2.6 > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian > # run gimp from inside the chroot jail > chroot chroot_gimp2.6 gimp > > > Enjoy Gimp2.6 and the workflow you are used to. > > No further updates/changes of your Distribution will take Gimp2.6 workflow > away from you. > > This will be reposted for your convenience when debian/stable switches to > Gimp2.8. > > > > Dirk > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
