Hi, have you considered using fam to detect changes on the file, instead of waiting for gimp to finish?
Joachim Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Jean-Jacques Sarton um 17:40: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian R?der schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > I did some exercises with the latest Scribus CVS to check out the new > > features. I like the 1.2 CVS tree very much, but there is one think, which > > is > > not very comfortable in my opinion: > > > > When I choose "edit picture" from the right mouse button content menue, > > Gimp > > opens the picture (great). But if I change something on it and save the > > picture, I can not laod the picture in Scribus again to see the result > > until > > I closed Gimp. In my opinion this behaviour is not very comfortable and if > > possible, I`d like to have it changed. It would be great, if Gimp is only > > started ones and can remain open, so that for every new picture just a new > > window in gimp is opened (as gimp normaly does) - so I save some time, > > because gimp doesn`t have to start up again for every picture. > > > > I know the behaviour, this can't be solved in an easy way. Scribus > must detect changes and wait until the gimp terminate or the file > was modified. If your gimp is allready open it will be nice to call > remote-gimp (if installed) instead of gimp and you will have more > possibly more pictures oppened within the same gimp session. If you > save the file under and other name Scribus will never detect that > you wan't to continue the work you habe previously done, this will > not be easy because scribus wan't to wait up to the notification > of a change or termination of gimp. For the first release of this > feature we have not solved all possible problems. > > Jean-Jacques > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner e-Mail: mail at joachim-breitner.de | Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de JID: joachimbreitner at amessage.de | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C | ICQ#: 74513189 Geekcode: GCS/IT/S d-- s++:- a--- C++ UL+++ P+++ !E W+++ N-- !W O? M?>+ V? PS++ PE PGP++ t? 5? X- R+ tv- b++ DI+ D+ G e+>* h! z? Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anh?nge. Siehe http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040401/741a57b9/attachment.pgp
