Re: Fw: Logo for Linux Magazine
Peter Mattis spontaneously blurts out:
On behalf of Linux Magazine I am pleased to announce that the Apache 1.3.12
has made the Linux Magazine Editors Choice Award for Best Graphics Tools. At
this time if you could provide us with a high res (300dpi) image or .eps
graphic depicting either a screenshot, boxshot or logo of the Gimp
application, it would be greatly appreciated for our upcoming September
Issue.
Let me be the first to say "huh?". That's it, i'm dumping GIMP for Apache ;-)
How could I have been using the wrong tool all this time?
-Dean Johnson
Tool Hooligan
Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project
Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880
"I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: XCF code in Imlib2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spontaneously blurts out:
On 25 Jun, Marc Lehmann wrote:
He and Raster are going to meet next week and then they'll think
about possible solutions for this conflict.
Don't they think this is demanding some _action_ (like reverting that
patch)? "meet next week" and "possible solutions" sounds, well, not
very serious.
The patch IS already reverted. About 5 minutes after my mail...
I talked to Raster right after the first email arrived and he said he
would take care of it. I was hoping to give him a running start before
the ugly free software posse jumped him. I must say that this mailing list
has degenerated into something akin to a Microsoft legal newsgroup. Shoot
first, let god sort'em out.
What happened was wrong, yes, but the ugly mob bristling with legal talent
doesn't seem too terribly community-like. Raster has provided more than
his share free software and is probably amongst the top ten people for
amount of code stolen from him, so a little 'slack' is appropriate.
Especially considering that he didn't even do it in the first place. I
could care less what you think of him or his code, but the ugly mob
crap is tiresome and downright juvenile.
I now await the mob turning on me.
-Dean Johnson
Tool Hooligan
Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project
Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880
"I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: Plugins at Sourceforge
Michael J. Hammel spontaneously blurts out: I'm curious why any new plug-ins should be added to the core *at all*. Gimp's distribution is fairly large as it is. Isn't it getting time to limit additional plug-ins to the core distribution to plug-ins which are considered "vital" in some way? Even some estoric file plug-ins need not necessarily be included with the core package. Throwing in the kitchen sink is what's starting to bloat some Linux distros. I totally agree! Ideally Gimp should have a connection to some plug-in registry so that needed esoteric (or not so esoteric) plug-ins could be downloaded and installed without restarting gimp. Have the simple plugin's with the distro and then have a series of "power packs" that roughly align with usage domains (i.e. "import powerpack","export powerpack", fine art powerpack", "prepress powerpack", etc). -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out: The solution to too large menus is a better way to display them, not demanding that I use the same font as you. Exactly! Scaling is one of the the biggest problems with modern (especially Open Source) GUI design. Stuff gets written to accommodate the author's immediate needs and what happens when the data (in this case plugins) explodes in number. EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Perhaps this is something that we should talk about at LWE. -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
Kelly Lynn Martin spontaneously blurts out: On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:27:16 -0600 (CST), Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Heh. Send me copies and I'll gladly read them. :) For those of you who aren't familiar with Tufte's books: "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 096139210X "Envisioning Information" by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392118 They are the Knuth-esque books for user interface stuff, not necessarily computer stuff either. On amazon, they refer to it as "The Strunk White of visual design". -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
feature requests?
Howdy,
Is there a feature request database for Gimp? If not, I would like to
request that a bug group for feature requests (preferrably with some
level of urgency) be added to the bugtracker on sourceforge. It would
be nice to have an exhaustive list of what people wanted and not depend
on "institutional knowledge".
My request is a "sort color table" option so that I can more easily
reduce the color table by hand.
-Dean Johnson
Tool Hooligan
Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project
Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880
"I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: Great job!
Pierfrancesco Caci spontaneously blurts out:
Hi, I wasn't able to use Gimp for a while, say since version 1.1.11,
either because it didn't compile or because it segfaulted.
Now I'm successfully using 1.1.15 and I wish to congratulate for the
great job and all the new features.
Thank you
I concur. I was really trying to use whatever came standard with RH6.0 and
things are *WAY* better with the latest and greatest. I was doing website stuff
and with the old version, I have to continually go back to Photoshop (on
my mac) to get things done in a crunch. This round of web assets was
created without photoshop at all (actually I used it to scan the images
only). I found it to be far more stable and actually work the way I
expected it to work. Great job guys!
In hopes of making Gimp even better, I have initiated the piGIMP project
(pigimp.sourceforge.net) and should hopefully have some very very
preliminary Photoshop vs GIMP benchmarking numbers at LWE next week.
To quote David, my co-conspirator in the project "Dean, I'm going to
kill you for making me install NT". Please send us your thoughts and
ideas!
-Dean Johnson
Tool Hooligan
Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project
Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880
"I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: Speaking of additional plug-ins
Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out:
Hmm... sounds sensible. Unless somebody comes up with something better
I'll start it in a week or so.
My idea is to copy the full cvs tree of gimp to (lets call it gimpforge)
and give any intersted plug-in author write access.
Updates from the gimp-cvs-tree/{libgimp,app,tools...} to gimpforge should
be automatic and regular, while updates in the other direction should be
enabled for specific files (plug-ins/common/snoise.c) or subdirectories
(e.g. plug-ins/perl).
That will effectively implement some kind of access-model, and it will
(hopefully) make it possible to *select* a fileset for distribution.
I guess I wasn't advocating moving the whole tree over, just the plug-ins.
I don't know anything about the GIMP development process, or the internal
intrigue that seems to surface from time to time, so I can't ascertain
whether the whole thing should move.
-Dean Johnson
Tool Hooligan
Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project
Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880
"I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
tool mode oddity
Howdy all, Using the latest and greatest as of about 3pm CST today, I have run into some odd behavior. At some point well into messing with an image, it won't let me switch to the eraser tool, instead deeming a pencil tool more appropriate. This happened twice working on the same image and I had to exit gimp to clear it. Any ideas? -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
timing actions?
Hello, Is there a standard (or recommended) way in GIMP to get timings of various filters and scripts? Looking in scrip-fu, it puts out timing info to the server log, but that is at 1 second granularity, which is insufficent for serious timing. It looks like I can get at a higher resolution timer through Perl, but I would rather get the information from something a little more tightly integrated with GIMP. -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
