Just one issue. This "Future of the GIMP" paper doesn't say anyting about
GNOME integration. I think this is an important issue. I know that GIMP wants
to be plataform independent (just now KDE/GNOME independent, because other
Unix vendors as HP-UX, Solaris and AIX are dropping CDE
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:56:55PM +0100, Fernando Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Unix vendors as HP-UX, Solaris and AIX are dropping CDE towards GNOME), but
GNOME optional support will be very interesting. For example:
It will be very easy to make a gnome-frontend for gimp-2.0, as it will
Raphael Quinet wrote:
I think that it is more important to standardize a method to build and
install from source, because that will enable everybody to try the
plug-ins as soon as they are released, and this will support many more
platforms than the ones that are actively updated by a
On 14 Dec, Sven Neumann wrote:
Please keep in mind that the main intention of our proposal has been
to better distribute work between core and plug-in developers by
seperating the source trees during development. Perhaps this scheme
could be translated to distribution too, but it does not
sounds good to me. we do need to also worry about the cost of
downloading from the web for european users who often have expensive
slower connections. im lucky and have a unlimited usage so could use
the convenient web idiot-proof method.
Lourens Veen wrote:
Jon Winters wrote:
We
Sven Neumann wrote:
Please keep in mind that the main intention of our proposal has been to
better distribute work between core and plug-in developers by seperating
the source trees during development. Perhaps this scheme could be translated
to distribution too, but it does not have to. If we
Hi,
Lourens Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All true, but then the problem is that non-technical users have to wait
for someone (or their favourite distribution) to package new plugins.
IE, let's say I write a new plugin, put it on plugins.gimp.org in source
form. Then Joe User can't use it
Small addition to my previous message:
Basically, what we need for distributing the source code of the
plug-ins is a mechanism similar to CPAN, except that it should rely on
a tool or plug-in distributed with the Gimp and not on Perl. It could
also be extended for fetching binaries, but this
Hi,
Tino Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why would you want to reinvent the wheel? Follow Unix philosophy: Use
tools which are already there.
I propose:
1. let the user use the package tool she wants
2. make plugins relocateable (I guess, not only RPM can do that)
3. provide easy
We should keep in mind that the vast majority of Gimp users are not
compiling from source. A shell script is not something those folks
understand. Their reaction will be... Heh.. Where are all the plugins,
this sucks!
Then large numbers of them will post to the gimp-devel list wondering WTF
Your last email looks good! Something for everyone!
I should have added that the "craplet" that I described could have a
"get plugins from CDROM" button that could facilitate installing plugins
from CD. You are correct... it is hard to imagine a computer without an
internet connection. ;-)
Hi,
Jon Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We should keep in mind that the vast majority of Gimp users are not
compiling from source. A shell script is not something those folks
understand. Their reaction will be... Heh.. Where are all the plugins,
this sucks!
Please keep in mind that the
The future of The GIMP
December 2000 by Sven Neumann Michael Natterer
This document is meant to be a RFC (Request For Comments). Nothing described
in here is a fixed decision, everything can and should be discussed. The
reason for writing this
I realise that it's probably too late already, but dare I say C++? Did
anyone ever even consider this?
As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have
a plugin manager that would enable you to download plugins from the web
on the fly. Something Linux distributions have
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Lourens Veen wrote:
I realise that it's probably too late already, but dare I say C++? Did
anyone ever even consider this?
As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have
a plugin manager that would enable you to download
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:59:56PM +0100, Fernando Herrera wrote:
Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 04:40:54PM +0100, Michael Natterer escribió:
o Think about a new way to handle plug-in distribution
As more and more plug-ins go into the main gimp distribution (and a lot
of plug-ins are wating
Someone today mentioned something about a new way to manage plugins. I
think the users would enjoy a plugin manager similar to the Helix Gnome
Updater.
Users could fire it up from time to time and be presented with a list of
plugins to update or add.
I think the Helix thing is open source.
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