Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP mailing list Archives ?

2001-03-19 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, "wolfgang hofer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what's wrong with GIMP mailing list Archives ? The gimp-devel Archive does not update since weeks. The address of the mailing list has changed, and it is likely that some archive sites have not updated their

Re: [Gimp-developer] compiling gimp from CVS

2001-03-19 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled gimp from the CVS sources. Here are just two remarks: 1) Some of the Tool buttons are missing, is this intended ? Yes. As announced on GIMP News (http://www.xach.com/gimp/news/) by Zach Beane on the 15th of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: couple possible TODO items

2001-03-30 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:56:32AM +0100, Austin Donnelly wrote: I really don't see what's wrong with using a ruler. The CD idea is cute, I have to agree. There is a tiny problem. I can hold the ruler _near_ my screen but I cannot

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bugs 52383 and 52385

2001-04-23 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Apr, Mike Kelly wrote: A month ago I submitted two bug reports using Bugzilla. To date, they remain in the UNCONFIRMED state. I've already patched my version of GIMP as per bug 52383, so this doesn't really bother me except that

[Gimp-developer] Help needed with unconfirmed gimp bugs (especially for Windows)

2001-04-25 Thread Raphael Quinet
I am trying to help Daniel (and others, hopefully) by dealing with the bug reports in bugzilla. This means confirming recently submitted bugs, replying to some questions, asking for more information about incomplete bug reports, and so on. But some of the bug reports are platform-specific and I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gallery maker ...

2001-05-18 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Fabian Frédérick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a gallery maker plug-in + batch convertion ... available from : http://www.dtlord.com/gallery Somebody could tell me who to contact in order to put it in Gimp distribution ? You have done it already by posting your

[Gimp-developer] Mail archives (was Re: [PLUGIN] Gallery Maker full reviewed)

2001-05-21 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-05-20 at 0133.49 +0200): Regarding the question to include it with core Gimp: As already discussed here several times, the plan is to distribute less plug-ins with the Gimp core

[Gimp-developer] Plug-ins, menus and user interface

2001-05-21 Thread Raphael Quinet
One of the things that has been mentioned several times while discussing the distribution of plug-ins is the fact that the menus are too crowded, and new users can easily get lost. The user interface is indeed a significant problem, but I think that it should be handled separately from the

Re: [Gimp-developer] The GIMP Webpage

2001-05-23 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Christoph Rauch wrote: [...] The site-design neednt be redesigned from scratch. It may be enough to polish it up and remove the Gimp-standard-script-look, which was copied all over the web and today has a bit trashy touch. Definitely not a good representation for the

Re: [Gimp-developer] New GIMP Webpage the 2nd

2001-05-23 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The current page displayed in lynx is suboptimal. Well, at least it is not too bad. It is still looking better in lynx than http://gug.sunsite.dk/ and some other gimp-related pages. ;-)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Script-fu and Re: The GIMP Webpage

2001-05-23 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [...skipped nice joke...] BTW, is there a Script-fu coding style? I have an idea in mind: clean scripts a bit, and publish some rules, in the same way Gimp C code has some rules (published?). As far as I know, there is no

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] 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] Gimp-Perl, Perl-Fu, Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-11 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: it seems that mandrake-8.0 comes with a broken gimp-perl, but I am not sure what is atcually the culript. the wrokaround (compiling/installing it yourself) has worked fine so far. It seems that the whole Gimp package in Mandrake 8.0 behaves

Re: [Gimp-developer] Big Fat Piggy Gimp

2001-06-12 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Big, Fat Piggy Gimp Fans, here's a very small patch that should fix our huge leak: [...] I don't consider this a clean solution but since it's a very small change, we should be able to evaluate easily if it is a correct fix. A better fix

Re: [Gimp-developer] handling of image comments (was 1.2 Bug Hunting)

2001-06-20 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: [about http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51164 ] Yes, it's exactly the problem described in the bug-report. Gimp does only attach a gimp-comment parasite to an image if it is created using File-New. Other ways to create an image (Paste as

[Gimp-developer] RFC: support for multi-image files and API change for load/save plug-ins

2001-08-07 Thread Raphael Quinet
This is going to be a bit long, but here is a quick summary: I would like to change the API to the load/save plug-ins by adding one extra parameter. This parameter would be ignored by almost all current plug-ins, but it would be useful for the file formats that can contain multiple images. For

Re: [Gimp-developer] RFC: support for multi-image files and API change for load/save plug-ins

2001-08-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO you'd be better off just using: wad://home/raph/slimy.wad/p/alien.foo This can be handled today in Gimp 1.2, see url.c Non-interactive stuff would go exclusively through these URLs while the interactive user would also

Re: [Gimp-developer] RFC: support for multi-image files and API change for load/save plug-ins

2001-08-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001, Jens Lautenbacher wrote: On 08 Aug 2001 16:10:31 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem is that # is not nestable. and the file system layer might want to use it itself. Hmm? No. Fragments are interpreted by the UserAgent. Exactly. As I wrote in my previous

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bugzilla...

2001-11-14 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Nov, Raphael Quinet wrote: Hmmm... Of course, Bugzilla goes down just when I send a mail telling everybody to use it. It looks like bugzilla.gnome.org is not the only address affected, because www.gnome.org seems to be down as well

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestion: Active bug list

2001-11-27 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally it got me lookign at bugzilla (a habit that has since lapsed), and looking at the thread it seemed to lead to the resolution of a fair few bugs. Do people think that doing this on a regular (say

Re: [Fwd: [Gimp-developer] Suggestion: Active bug list]

2001-11-27 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dave Neary wrote: By mailing the 10/15 most critical bugs on a monthly basis to the list, I think people will be more likely to fix them. I know that I was when Sven last posted his trawl through outstanding bugs. It also has the benefit of connecting the very

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thing for GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Avi Bercovich wrote: eh I work as a webdesigner in an Amsterdam based 'top tier' New Media company. I do little in the way of print graphics thus this may be a bit off-topic... But, all my work is done in GNU/Linux in GIMP, whilst my co-workers use Macs and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2?

2001-11-28 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Laramie Leavitt wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Kelly Martin wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:48:33PM -0700, Laramie Leavitt wrote: Is anyone actively working on GIMP 2? Insofar as there is activity on GIMP 1.4, yes. Is anyone working on it insofar as it relates to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GIMP Tip of the Day messages

2001-10-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
For what it's worth, here is my opinion on the Tip of the Day messages and their translations. In summary: keep it simple! I know that being the one who introduced these tips in the Gimp does not grant me any special priviledges (especially since I am not translating them) but it looks like the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GIMP Tip of the Day messages

2001-10-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Daniel could you please take the discussion about UTF-8 and editors somewhere else?! Then, if you want to propose something that is GIMP related, please take your time to write up an elaborate proposal and try to explain your ideas in a way that

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-12-04 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, Marc wrote: ImageMagick has NO license. The only thing we say is: [...] In any case, my version of ImageMagick (older, 5.3.6) does have a license (in Copyright.txt). (and I think it is very much BSD-like). Right. And I was wrong in my previous comment: the

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF and Gimp parasites (was: Current work)

2001-12-04 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, Nick Lamb wrote: Maybe I said this before, I can't remember, but the standard for trying to describe generic metadata is Dublin Core. So before burning too much midnight oil trying to organise metadata into neat categories at least type Dublin Core into a search

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF and Gimp parasites (was: Current work)

2001-12-04 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, Dave Neary wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote: Some time ago, I submitted two bug reports about this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443 (EXIF and metadata) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61499 (editing

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-21 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: Please everyone test this how to and see if it is lacking anything. It is intended to be a beginner tutorial for compiling gimp 1.2 from CVS. [...] http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/howtos/cvs/cvs.html Some parts of the tutorial are Linux-centric or

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimpcon2

2002-01-21 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 05:53, syngin wrote: Would it not be a better idea to figure out the country of origin for those attending and place the convention closest to the majority? No.. because then we'd be in Germany again. Yosh wants to go

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-04 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Lutz Müller wrote: On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:04, Sven Neumann wrote: if it solves our problems and works for non-JPEG images too, I don't see any problem in adding such a dependency to gimp-1.3. EXIF information is specific to JPEG files. Therefore, editing and

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-05 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dave Neary wrote: Raphael Quinet wrote: [...] Note that it is important that each individual item in the EXIF data is converted to a separate GIMP parasite instead of importing the whole EXIF data in one big chunk because [...] I'm not sure I agree with you

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dave Neary wrote: Raphael wrote: There are several reasons for using individual parasites for each part of the EXIF data instead of using a single parasite including the whole structure: [snipped points] Your points all have merit. My problem is now, and has

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Adam D. Moss wrote: Raphael Quinet wrote: The only thing that is missing is a standard list of names and types for all parasites. {docs|devel-docs}/parasites.txt Err... Right. I knew that the file existed (I took a look at it the last time we discussed

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Dave Neary wrote: Parasite naming is non-standard. Anyone can create a parasite with any name they want. [...] Where *is* the list of parasites? There are only (as you point out) about 10 persistent parasites, and the list isn't maintained anywhere. One possible

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Tue, 06 Feb 2002, Adam D. Moss wrote: Raphael Quinet wrote: But it needs to be extended with all the names of the EXIF parasites. So I will try to do that this week. Basically, I think that it would be enough to use the name gimp-blah for each blah field of the EXIF data

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-07 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:17:21PM +0100, Raphael Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EXIF data and simply copy the descriptions given in the EXIF standard. Some of the fields will have to be discarded (or set read-only

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Jon Winters wrote: Went to an Adobe conference yesterday and they claim photoshop 6 has been tested with images up to 8000 layers. They said it can probably handle more but that is where they stopped testing. How many layers are we supporting? (heh... memory is

[Gimp-developer] Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3

2002-02-12 Thread Raphael Quinet
I just had a look at Changelog for 1.2.3 and the list of bug reports that have been fixed since 1.2.2 was released... Here is a list of the significant changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3: - Many improvements to the documentation and help pages. - Updated translations. - The binaries and manpages

[Gimp-developer] Planned breakage in plug-in API and PDB for 1.3.x or 2.x

2002-02-18 Thread Raphael Quinet
While I was working on the list of parasites (which is more than one week late, sorry), I started thinking about the changes to the PDB or to the plug-in API that have been discussed on this list or submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org. Here is a summary of the changes that I still have in mind

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI suggestions (button bar/wizard)

2002-02-18 Thread Raphael Quinet
On 2002-02-16, Sven Neumann wrote: Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These options could be beneath buttons in a dialog that appears on start-up instead of or along side the tool box. Sure, they only save some scrolling in a menu, but I believe these extra transactional