Re: [Gimp-developer] anti-swpat campaigner seeks pantone p atent details
Von: Alastair M. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: The lack of Pantone support in GIMP is a useful example of how software users are harmed by software patents, but to make this claim I need to be able to point out which patents cause this problem. Is that really a patent issue? Pantone support need be nothing more complicated than a name - colour lookup table. (That's how InDesign implements it - an EPS file defining a shedload of CMYKCustomColors). I would have thought that the issue with Pantone colours would be Trademark and/or Copyright. Pantone owns the copyright of the Pantone* terms and the color names. Googling for pantone copyright truns up at least one case where this was used to get a pantone palette off the web. If no-one minds, I'll submit the information here too: http://www.gnu.org/patent-examp/patent-examples.html#GIMP Does anyone update this site? Right now, it reads like the LZW patent is still being claimed. I thought this went away last year? Publishing any examples you may find could, unfortunately, backfire for the same reason. Especially if the page is not kept up-to-date - we don't need another source to spread FUD, the holders of trivial patents can dothis on their own. HTH, Michael -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] authors.xml, volunteer needed
Hi Tor, thanks a lot for giving authors.xml a go. Will you do another patch incorporating the suggestions that have been made on the list or should we just commit your first patch and work from there? Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Using GIMP for Paper Prototyping the Colors Menu
Hi, Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently someone (in gnome?) is working on some sort of card-sorting app to help with distributed paper prototyping. The application I am speaking of is being developed by the team behind openusability.org. The main advantage will be that it will includes code for analysing the results. Anyone concerned with the Colors menu, please try this and drag stuff around and see if you find groupings you like better than the current ones. For the current Colors menu, the strings to paste into the paperproto dialog are (copy and paste the whole block): If you use the menu labels you imply that the user knows what the filters behind these names do. Otherwise you are just sorting the terms, not the actual meaning. We should try to avoid that and let users sort cards that have a short description of the filter instead of asking them to sort the menu labels. But certainly your card-sorting prototype can already help the way it is. It just requires experienced gimp users. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
