On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Agreed. Just pick a reasonable default based on the amount of memory
in the system. And please use libgtop to figure that out instead of
some horrid hack like cat /proc/meminfo.
If we're going to depend on Yet Another Library, might I
Branko Collin wrote:
A user is _never_ an idiot. If you feel that way, you may indeed as
well only develop for yourself. Once you give a copy to a non-
programming friend or neighbour for the first time, however, you have
(IMHO) some moral obligation to care for the user friendliness of
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:51:26PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:
www.gimp.org mentions the win32 version on the front page.
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
David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here are a few observations of mine on the UI, following Chris' mom's
observation that Gimp looks terrible.
David, this is a wonderful list.
The installation process is frightening:
1. The user is presented with a dialog box Welcome to GIMP that
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
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
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
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
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
