On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:40, John R. Culleton wrote: > I have the writer's permission to forward this info: > -------------------------------------------------- > One other note of caution about Gimp: I would not try to install it if > you're running Win XP. The online info indicates that it will run on > Win XP, but it also may screw up other programs. I downloaded it and > then discovered that you had to install the GTK+ Runtime Environment. > Did that, tried it and, after quickly determining that it was an awkward > program and not one that I would choose to use for anything, discovered > that GTK had messed up other programs. Took me a couple of hours to get > everything back to normal (had to manually find the bits and pieces of > GTK and reinstall a couple of other programs).
This is complete crapola. GTK is just a library and doesn't do anything unless called. I have been using Gimp at work on Windows XP since XP was released. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
