Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Garry R. Osgood
In ChangeLog : Fri Jan 28 01:16:35 CET 2000 Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PLUGIN_CVS: updated to give Kevin Turner write access to the maze plug-in (therefore, the maze plug-in is no longer managable within the gnome cvs server. If you have any

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:40:32 -0500, Zach Beane - MINT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Count this as a cry out against it. I suggest waiting for a logical pause in development, such as the release of GIMP 1.2, to begin making these not-insubstantial changes in source management. My position is

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Zach Beane - MINT wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: [snip] However, since the masses haven't cried out yet, I guess we can try and see how it works in practise. Count this as a cry out against it. I suggest waiting for a

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:33:38 -0800 From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Dean Johnson
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?

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-05 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:33:38 -0800, "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-02-01 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 1 Feb, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: additional plug-ins. Some things, like translations, must be part of the distribution currently. This needs to be fixed. :) Do you volunteer? I don't understand translations at all. :) What a pity... I'm currently trying to dissolve all these

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-31 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 28 Jan, Michael J. Hammel wrote: Do you mean language locales? I'm not very familiar with working with multi-language issues, but I have wondered why this isn't handled by the plug-ins directly. Because it won't work entirely this way... localisation works for everything but the menues

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-31 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:57:59 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: additional plug-ins. Some things, like translations, must be part of the distribution currently. This needs to be fixed. :) Do you volunteer? I don't understand translations at all. :) Kelly

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Marc Lehmann This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user system, so there is not much sense in tailoring the number of installed plug-ins to the needs of, say, the admin. Playing the devils advocate here, you could also say there is not much sense in tailoring

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Andrew Kieschnick
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Michael J. Hammel wrote: Thus spoke Marc Lehmann This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user system, so there is not much sense in tailoring the number of installed plug-ins to the needs of, say, the admin. Playing the devils advocate here,

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:14:49PM -0700, "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some menus that need adjusting to reduce the number of entries. Some menus (like the file type in the file dialog) still are unusable with some font/screen combination since most of it will be

Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Garry R. Osgood
In ChangeLog : Fri Jan 28 01:16:35 CET 2000 Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PLUGIN_CVS: updated to give Kevin Turner write access to the maze plug-in (therefore, the maze plug-in is no longer managable within the gnome cvs server. If you have any

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Zach Beane - MINT
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: [snip] However, since the masses haven't cried out yet, I guess we can try and see how it works in practise. Count this as a cry out against it. I suggest waiting for a logical pause in development, such as the release of GIMP

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Zach Beane - MINT wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: [snip] However, since the masses haven't cried out yet, I guess we can try and see how it works in practise. Count this as a cry out against it. I suggest waiting for a

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:40:56 +0100, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: One possible reason is that it is a pain in the ass to install additional plug-ins. Some things, like translations, must be part of the distribution currently. This needs to be fixed. :) Kelly

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:47:25 +0100, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Most (but of course not all) of the problems are related to the fact that the menus are too full and can'T be changed, not necessarily that too many plug-ins are installed (which is mostly a diskspace problem). One of the

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:36:36PM -0700, "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They do make it moderately easy during installation, but the default installations include lots of things many users will never need. But This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge (fwd)

2000-01-28 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Zach Beane - MINT On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: [snip] However, since the masses haven't cried out yet, I guess we can try and see how it works in practise. Count this as a cry out against it. I suggest waiting for a logical pause in

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-28 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Kelly Lynn Martin My position is sourceforge should be used at this time only for plug-ins which are not already in the source tree. Such plug-ins will not be a part of 1.2 anyway because 1.2 is frozen at this time. When 1.3 development begins, we can decide what to do with the