nice to hear from you Patrick, On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:39:52PM -0400, BandiPat wrote: > As much as I agree with you on the new file selectors and disappointment > that the Gimp developers can't change them, I'm afraid this is the > state of Gnome/GTK+ presently. If you haven't seen Gnome lately, 2.4 > or 2.6 versions, then you will be even more disappointed. It seems > that those developers have decided taking away user control over the > interface will make it an easier transition for user's of other OS's to > move to Linux. You have to realize now, it's worked for Apple & > Windows so far. Hide everything, lock it into a consistent look & feel > and remove as many user controls as possible to eliminate confusion on > their part! > i started to use gimp-1.0.2 on a 486 with a 33meg harddrive and it kept up more than fine with photoshop5 on windows on a 455MHz machine. i did not understand this miracle until i installed gimp-1.2 and gimp-1.3 on the same computer (the 455MHz) which had to be upgraded to run photoshop7 and WindowsME and later. these are still all just numbers to me ....
> Fortunately for us, the Linux users, we have other choices to go too > that are still Linux oriented, full control, but this is not an option > for Gimp, built so heavily within GTK+. Maybe something will change, > maybe they'll realize the error of their ways, but presently, they have > decided to go this route. We'll see if pays off and if it does, Linux > gets more users and if not, the Linux users get an ugly GUI interface > that can't be changed much. > well, it might be time that gnome claim their own? call it the gnome tool kit. it is smelling like a free ride on gimp success right now. having miguel join #gimp and call me retarded doesnt do much to make me think that the rest of his users have any sense or ability. http://carol.gimp.org/gallery/journal/gimp-2004-09-04.txt (use "Find In Page" and search for miguel to see the respect given back) i sent him an email introducing myself to him a few weeks back and never received a similar response back. not being a gnome user, i only know him from an email i read about "gay gnome parties" and another web page in which him and someone named nat did a photo cheer thing for evolution showing some profit. actually, in retrospect, i would guess that being called retarded by someone who cannot send back a similar introduction with such a limited internet personality is probably not so bad. if anyone would like to see this introduction, i will be happy to forward a copy of it to you -- maybe i should put it on cgo .... i have never gotten anywhere with human beings treating them like they are to stupid to handle cool tools. i guess they have or are banking on this. or on the fact that things on #gimp are public via my journal now. http://carol.gimp.org/about/introduction-to-miguel.txt i see that i failed to mention that i wrote a program for a hypothetical turing machin in 1986 or 87 that squared x. i am retarded ;) > Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, > by Those That Cannot Hear the Music! you hear it, dont you :) thank you for being not the stupid gimp user they think they make software for ... carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
