Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Bucket fill, Fill with foreground and gradient

2001-06-06 Thread Lourens Veen
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, this sounds reasonable to me. On the other hand, this would render the bucket fill tool almost useless since you can do the color and pattern fill much easier using DND. The sole advantage of the Bucket Fill tools is the threshold functionality and the fact that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Perl server problem

2001-06-06 Thread Chetan Dhavse
Dear Gimpers Thanks for such a prompt reply --- when one is lost like the way I am There is this wonderful mailing list [What would I have done without internet :-(] I had posted a question about -- which is the best way to start gimp. [this was some time back]. I had received no reply

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The installation process is frightening: 1. The user is presented with a dialog box Welcome to GIMP that is half full of legalese (NO GUARANTEE etc...). actually our first version had an Accept button at the bottom ;-) The GPL wants you to

[Gimp-developer] Re: bug using gimp with a wacom stylus

2001-06-06 Thread Garry R. Osgood
Stefan Seefeld wrote: hi there, I'm trying to use the gimp with a wacom intuos tablet. The 'input devices' dialog correctly reports cursor, stylus, and eraser. But when attemping to use the stylus to draw, the program aborts with bash$ gimp GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -21504 bytes

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi, On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:48:28PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: 2. The current second dialog box shows a full list of files and directories that most users will never care about at first. Maybe we should add an indication that knowing all about this is not necessary to use Gimp? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Branko Collin
On 5 Jun 2001, at 15:43, Chris Brown wrote: [how to improve the GIMP LookFeel] My second suggestion is more technical, finding a way (and forgive me if there already is) to allow Gimp to have skins or something like that so that if someone wants it to *look* like Photoshop, they can. I

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Branko Collin
On 5 Jun 2001, at 23:08, Sven Neumann wrote: To many people, it won't matter whether it's free, or whether it supports the same features of a commercial product from Adobe that is far more polished. Well, those people should stay with their commercial products then. This is free

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Branko Collin
On 5 Jun 2001, at 23:35, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-06-05 at 1543.38 -0500): increase their market share they need to fix the UI, and make it Market share? Heeey, guys, how much money are you earning with Gimp? My hourly rate for making web pages

[Gimp-developer] smp

2001-06-06 Thread Robert Cox
Is gimp optimized for use on SMP systems? I would like to build a linux dual box . sincerely, R.Cox

Re: [Gimp-developer] Perl server problem

2001-06-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Chetan Dhavse wrote: [...] [--enable-stack-trace {never|query|always} option is not available in with gimp 1.1.04] [...] This is the strace -p -s o/p # read(0, , 4096) = 0 getpid()

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bucket fill, Fill with foreground and gradient

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Magic Wand is not the only way to make a selection. I agree it sounds logical that one would want to stroke or fill a wand selection completely, but I can think of uses for a threshold fill with a rectangular or elliptical selection. you

Re: [Gimp-developer] smp

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Robert Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is gimp optimized for use on SMP systems? it could make more use of multiple processors, but yes, you gain a speed improvement if using more than one processor. Salut, Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] smp

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: it could make more use of multiple processors, but yes, you gain a speed improvement if using more than one processor. Does it actually work? AFAIK, yes. You specify --with-mp=yes when running configure

Re: [Gimp-developer] smp

2001-06-06 Thread furnace
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:19:46PM -0400, Robert Cox wrote: Is gimp optimized for use on SMP systems? I would like to build a linux dual box . no, but plug ins are run as seperate processes. plug ins themselves can take advantage of that but the app itself does not. sincerely, R.Cox

Re: [Gimp-developer] smp

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, furnace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:19:46PM -0400, Robert Cox wrote: Is gimp optimized for use on SMP systems? I would like to build a linux dual box . no, but plug ins are run as seperate processes. plug ins themselves can take advantage of that but the

[Gimp-developer] Re: Re: UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-06-06 at 1424.04 +0200): increase their market share they need to fix the UI, and make it Market share? Heeey, guys, how much money are you earning with Gimp? rates. I do earn money with the GIMP, yes. If it weren't for the I am speaking about the people that make

[Gimp-developer] 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Avi Bercovich
Hi All, As ever I;m not quite sure where I go to post bug reports, so I;m posting to the list. Colour conversion of the xcf file at http://avi.mediamatic.nl/misc/conversion.html brings downs 1.2.1 everytime I attempt it ;-) I'm trying to go from 24bit to 32 colours. if I resize the image from

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Avi Bercovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As ever I;m not quite sure where I go to post bug reports, so I;m posting to the list. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ is the right place. Your bug-report has been entered into the database and I have forwarded your mail to Adam asking him to have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:23PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Argh, I knew the heavy usage of g_assert() in the convert code would bite us some day. But assuming the assertions aren't invalid we have found a bug that would otherwise be very hard to find? IIRC People who don't care why their

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After scrolling. And not on the page where you would expect it, on the download page. Surely, you do not expect a visitor to read the whole web site before downloading the software? please move this discussion about the webpage to the gimp-web

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Adam D. Moss
Nick Lamb wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:23PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Argh, I knew the heavy usage of g_assert() in the convert code would bite us some day. But assuming the assertions aren't invalid we have found a bug that would otherwise be very hard to find? Yes, the

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10:24 06.06.01 +0200, David Monniaux wrote: On 5 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: He's speaking of the Win32 version here which of course looks and feels different than the usual win32 application. This feeling will change as Let's add that the UI in the Win32 version is *BUGGY* (my mom

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI Stuff

2001-06-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 23:08 05.06.01 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [..., removed becuase I totally agree to the points Sven made] My second suggestion is more technical, finding a way (and forgive me if there already is) to allow Gimp to have skins or something like that so

[Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-06 Thread Peter
Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? All the talk about user interfaces made me think about what annoys me most. using the desktop analogy, normal Windows applications look like an organized desktop and Gimp/Apple style applications look like a messy desktop. I do not

[Gimp-developer] Re: 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Garry R. Osgood
Raphael Quinet wrote: I have just entered your bug report in Bugzilla as bug #55830. You can look at it from here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55830 Colour conversion of the xcf file at http://avi.mediamatic.nl/misc/conversion.html brings downs 1.2.1 everytime I

[Gimp-developer] adding a tool

2001-06-06 Thread Jonas Geduldig
Hi, I'm interested in adding a tool for detecting and cutting out contour regions. Is this feasible? Has this already been done? Is there a doc explaining how to contribute to Gimp development? Thanks, Jonas ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Gimp-developer] paper sizes [request for comments]

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think of coding something for paper sizes. That's what I propose: - a set of predefined paper sizes (ISO and US) - user-definable sizes - the default paper size is set according to the locale (country) where the user is. Any comments? How

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The installation process is frightening: 1. The user is presented with a dialog box Welcome to GIMP that is half full of legalese (NO GUARANTEE etc...). actually our first version had an Accept button

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A web master who knows www.gimp.org inside and out may think that 'where is the Windows version?' is neither here nor there, sinds www.gimp.org is not the distribution point for the Windows version. www.gimp.org mentions the win32 version on

[Gimp-developer] Re: UI remarks

2001-06-06 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-06-06 at 1724.41 +0200): The GPL wants you to put a visible notification about the license into your program. This notice should be seen whenever you start Gimp. We only show it on user installation and one day RMS will come and get us for this lazyness. Well,