Re: Why host plug-ins at SourceForge? (Was: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.)

2000-02-25 Thread Robert L Krawitz
From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:37:02 +0100 just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on available resources with substantial interest and a little effort.

Re: Why host plug-ins at SourceForge? (Was: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.)

2000-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on available resources with substantial interest and a little effort. As long as it helps Gimp development I'm all for it. (That's why I pointed Dirk to your

Re: Why host plug-ins at SourceForge? (Was: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.)

2000-02-25 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:42:49 -0800 From: Kevin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:06:43PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > There is a gimp-plugins project at SourceForge which you might be > interested in, since they can provide you with web, ftp and cvs resources

Why host plug-ins at SourceForge? (Was: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.)

2000-02-25 Thread Kevin Turner
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:06:43PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > There is a gimp-plugins project at SourceForge which you might be > interested in, since they can provide you with web, ftp and cvs resources: > > http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/ > > PS: I don't know why people dec

Re: Magicless file formats

2000-02-25 Thread Mattias Engdegård
>> Anyway, if the user finds that an application doesn't try to load a file >> whose name ends in .tga as a Targa file (or worse, attempts to load it as >> a Group 3 fax file), then the same user will assume that the application, >> or its programmers, or both, are stupid beyond belief. And rightl

Re: Testing and integration of "The i18n solution"(TM)

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 25 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > Don't waste your time at that. I already did that and I tried to > explain you why there is no way to hook into that place since GTK+ > creates the submenu on the fly. At the time we create the tearoff > menu, the submenu is already created. But when the submenu i

Re: Re: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.

2000-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > > (1) What does IPTC mean? > > IPTC is short for "International Press Telecommunications Council". > They made a standard for incorporating information about images within > the image files. Sounds like an interesting and useful extension. > > (2) Can it be considered important enough

Re: Re: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.

2000-02-25 Thread Dirk Försterling
> Hi, > > My questions are: > > (1) What does IPTC mean? IPTC is short for "International Press Telecommunications Council". They made a standard for incorporating information about images within the image files. These informations are most important for photographers and their agencies to ex

Re: Re: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.

2000-02-25 Thread Dirk Försterling
> Hi, > (1) What does IPTC mean? I forgot to tell you: See http://www.iptc.org/ -- D i r kF "o r s t e r l i n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.DeathsDoor.com/milliByte/ -- WorkMan - The civilized CD Player Sent through GMX Free Mai

Re: I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.

2000-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > I got the CVS version of The Gimp and I am ready to start. > The Idea is to introduce an IPTC... button to the file filters > for the file types that support IPTC data somehow (JPEG, TIFF) > and to implement an filter to write .iptc image files. > > My questions so far: > Is someone else

I want to develop IPTC-data support for The Gimp.

2000-02-25 Thread Dirk Försterling
Hi! I got the CVS version of The Gimp and I am ready to start. The Idea is to introduce an IPTC... button to the file filters for the file types that support IPTC data somehow (JPEG, TIFF) and to implement an filter to write .iptc image files. My questions so far: Is someone else already doing

gimptool

2000-02-25 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Gimptool has no specific way to echo the name of the Gimp installation directory. There are options for installing things, for getting flags, and such, but nothing to simply report where the Gimp is installed. The issue here is that I'd like change the printer descriptions inside the print plugi

pnm plugin

2000-02-25 Thread Martin Weber
Can anyone extend the pnm plugin so it can export pbm?

Re: Testing and integration of "The i18n solution"(TM)

2000-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > Look at the code we already have to add the tearoff menus. A similar > thing could be used to create the branches itself. Don't waste your time at that. I already did that and I tried to explain you why there is no way to hook into that place since GTK+ creates the submenu on the fly.

Re: Testing and integration of "The i18n solution"(TM)

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 25 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > Which is exactly what I proposed at the end of my last mail. Despite > that I proposed to build up the menu-structure (actually only the > strings) in a hash-table before actually creating it. For a new translation function I guess? > Would be much > faster the

Re: Magicless file formats

2000-02-25 Thread Peter Kirchgessner
Mattias Engdegård wrote: > Anyway, if the user finds that an application doesn't try to load a file > whose name ends in .tga as a Targa file (or worse, attempts to load it as > a Group 3 fax file), then the same user will assume that the application, > or its programmers, or both, are stupid bey

Re: Testing and integration of "The i18n solution"(TM)

2000-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > Yes. That's why I thought of ripping off a slice from both the > translation AND the original. > > Consider this: > Plugin wants to create a menu /Filters/verynew/stupidtool. > Now we first check: > - Is there a menu /Filters/verynew >-> if not continue ripping off until we found