[Gimp-developer] Not quiting just changing status
Hello GIMP developers/users, I have had some time to think now and it seems that maybe I should not be incharge of the website. The reasons for this is as follows: * My work takes a lot of my time, sometimes I am not home until 22:00 swedish time. This makes it hard to actually sit and do something at the computer after work hours. * I have been away for to long and am not really taking care of things enough to make the site grow as it should by this time. Yes, I made promises and have tried to keep them, but I never thought that my work would be like this. * I have to many other things going on around me right now that takes up my time and I do not want that to affect the websites development. Instead I would like the site to grow, and for that reason there needs to be a stronger person than me and more flexible that can handle the site. I am not reassigning right now. And I am not telling you that I won't be able to help with the site, instead I would like to be a contributer to the website and help at the areas that I know. But having the website as the responsibility is not really good for me or for the users. To be really honest...I don't think I am technical enough for this kind of responsibility. I will keep looking at things until a final decision has been made about who can take over this task. I'm sorry that this should happen right now. But like I said...I can help...but not be responsible. Best regards, -- Niklas Mattisson ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Website updates for 2.2 release
Hello everyone, So time has come to start thinking about the information provided on the website before the 2.2 release is out. The first thing that is needed is some information on how to update from 2.0 to 2.2 and how to have 2.0 and 2.2(-preX) installed side-by-side. This is a great time for everyone that wants to help with the website to come forward and help. If you are interested then join the gimp-web list and help to start discussions and even help with the information on the website. As all may understand what the main reason is for the updates is to keep up-to-date with the application itself and so we need to start thinking about making 2.0 information into 2.2. At the moment I do not have a list of TODOs but I am sure with this mail that we all can start discussing the different places that needs updating and what would be good to add to the site. Right now we just need to start thinking about the information that needs updating and not adding new sections etc. So please come with ideas and help us to get a even better website then it was before. Regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] A few website ideas
Hello lists, So its been a little while since the GimpCon was and I was hoping to put my ideas together a little better then I have them now but I will try to explain the ideas that I have as good as possible. New things: * User-FAQ - This needs to be added to the website as soon as possible. I do not think we have problems with questions but problems with how to design the FAQ. However at the moment I think it would be really good to clean the old old FAQ and add questions that reflects on 2.0. Rockwlrs and I spoke about this a little at GimpCon because I knew that he has been working with the questions before. * Documentation - Is needed to provide users and developers with the new documentation, we also need to have the different languages on the website. This should be able to be done by using some sort of script or buildsystem for the documentation. Anyone that has any good ideas about how to do this in a really good way so that we can update it easily? And so that the languages gets updated also? Maybe be able to update language by language also? Website style: --- * Hidding submenus - The menu is starting to grow and it would be good to make it hide some of the submenus. As soon as you enter the main section of the link you click on, the submenus will appear. This might help a little in improving the view also to where you are in the menu. This idea also gives us a little problem, the menus need to be named in a way that is understandable and straightforward to the user. Example: Documentation '- Tutorials Having Documentation as the main section name is not really telling me that here you can get a lot of different help instead it is telling me that here you will find some cool documentation. But if we name it: Help |- Documentation '- Tutorials It should say that quot;here you can get some helpquot;. Maybe I am wrong, but this is some of the things I am looking at right now. The ideas above are only some of the things that I am looking at right now, but they are the major big parts that I would like to see more discussions about on the lists. Take a look at the ideas and give me and the others on the gimp-web list some feedback. And remember..they are ideas to improve and help. Regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 preperations for our 1st release
tis 2004-02-03 klockan 11.02 skrev Roman Joost: We're going to make a first release of the gimp-help-2. I want to inform the authors, to have a look over their written content and make sure, that the release will not include major spelling or grammar errors. The freeze of the sources will be on next wednesday the 11th. Hopefully, this release will get some more attention of writing content and fixing tiny errors for the manual. So, keep up the good work and let me know if there are any problems regarding the release. Greetings, Hey, I will actually have problems getting the Swedish translation done before next wednesday. I have had so much in school at the moment and done so many other things at the same time that I have been kind of away of all the translations. However this weekend I will try to get more done at least most of the toolbox translations. Best regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 preperations for our 1st release
Hey again, Actually I have a few other things to remind everyone. * in src/toolbox/menu.xml the section about GIMP Online is still not translated that much. Not as far as I can see at least. That is translated and updated after I did the move of the object. * src/toolbox/tool-*.xml should change the line Tool Call to something else. This is not correct english and I can't seem to find good translation for the words either. The fact is that I have tried in a irc channel where there is a lot of translators and they said that I should bugreport this because it is not correct, and I agree with them that it sounds weird. Those are actually the main things I have been looking at right now. Hope that everyone understands what I am talking about. Regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 preperations for our 1st release
Hi, After discussions on IRC I made the desition to make a bugreport about the problems with Tool Call for the docs. The report is located at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133353 Also I talked to Sven and the others and according to Sven the word freeze is perhaps not well chosen. The release will be a pre release. But like roman said this release is here to get people more interested to start working harder with the docs and to get tests done. Best regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Path tutorials
Hello everyone, Today I uploaded a new update of my website. The updates might not be big but at least they should do some help. There has been questions about Path Tutorials both on the developers list and the user list, so I thought I might give it a try. Right now I have two tutorial for the GIMP 2.0 paths and they are located at: http://scizzo.gimp.org/gimp/Paths_Basics/ http://scizzo.gimp.org/gimp/Paths_Basics2/ In the second one I have also added a small section that explains some of the new things included in the stroke dialog which I have had a lot of help with from all of the developers. Thank you for helping me do the tutorials and don't be afraid to send me feedback on them. Regards, -- Niklas Mattisson scizzoNOSPAM-at-gimp-dot-org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Getting Involved section on new site
Hey all, It seems like there is a lot of questions about how we should structure the Getting Involved section and I would like to make a few things clear here and also prupose a little structure. - We should use the existing file that contains the changelog updates and such things. - The image. I like it though it takes a lot of place on the site. Do the developers want it there or do you think that it might be a little to much? - IMHO I would remove the Important URLs parts and move this to Links well the once that is not in the Links section at least. - Important GIMP Development URLs is important and I would like this to stay where it is. OK here goes a little structure: - Getting Involved |-- How can I help? |-- How Tos(If we have any?) |-- What is going on '-- Links (OS specific help pages) This might be small but still it would not be much to change if we build it like this for now. This can change later also depending what the developers want the site to contain. What do the developers want the site section to look like and is there anything that I have missed above? I would like to have some discussions about this because it is important to make this section understandable and useful for new people who wants to help with GIMP. So please add comments. Best regards, -- Niklas Mattisson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
