Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's easier on everybody if you just modify the splash screen to have a message to the effect of "PRERELEASE VERSION INTENDED FOR DEVELOPMENT TESTING ONLY" rather than forcing people to one day have to do extra work because of someone's arbitrary timeout policy. The message could even tell where

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
michael chang wrote: On 9/23/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: The problem is that when the timeout dies, then should be a new version; if there isn't one, it's kinda silly to have to re-install the same version to extend the timeout. Reinstalling the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Website

2005-09-25 Thread Preacher Public
No, I made it with Inkscape and only smudged things here and there later. oh, and added the brush. But on general I like to keep things vector based, this wat they can always be scaled up and down. From: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Preacher Public [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: GIMPDev

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Axel Wernicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about writing it with large red letters on the splash screen - it can't be skipped and is displayed long enough to get the message through :) Of course the splash screen can be skipped. AFAIK many distributons configure GIMP to not show a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Website

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Preacher Public [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to volunteer to help with updating the Gimp website; I was told by Sven on the usability forum to apply to this mailing list. Actually, I asked you to join the gimp-web mailing list. Perhaps you want to take the discussion there? Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread michael chang
On 9/25/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: On 9/23/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: The problem is that when the timeout dies, then should be a new version; if there isn't one, it's kinda silly to have to re-install

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinstalling the same version wouldn't help, I'm talking about a hard timeout there - created when the release tarball is made, for example, and set to e.g. 60 or 90 days into the future. What's all this fuss? There is absolutely no reason why

[Gimp-developer] GLib requirement bumped to 2.8.0

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, I am sorry that I couldn't have announced this earlier. But when I tried to build the 2.3.4 tarball tonight, I ran into the problem that due to a change in glib 2.8, the --dump-gimprc-manpage and --dump-gimprc-system command-line options stopped working. These are needed for 'make dist'. So