Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

2012-07-25 Thread Burnie West
On 07/25/2012 05:25 AM, Elle Stone wrote: It always surprises me how few people are working on a project as big, important, and widely used as Gimp. I'd love to work on it, but I can't keep up with the starting point :-) ___ gimp-developer-list maili

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 21:53 +0530, Skand Hurkat wrote: > > very good idea. > Not just inkscape, but I believe that Emacs, Vim and other text editors > also create a backup file. AFAIK, the backup file is autosaved, and the > original is kept as is, in case the user wishes to throw away all change

Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

2012-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > On a related note, I reported a bug back in 2010: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620781 (I changed my > website domain, the link I gave in the bug report is no longer > available). That bug still persists in Gimp 2.8/2.9 if the sRG

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: > Not when you're trying to get it running in a Windows environment > (non-native to FF) and don't necessarily have 4-5 years of experience to > compare it to. In my experience, most crashes were related not to > memory/cpu intensive tasks

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Rob Antonishen
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote: > On 25/07/12 07:44, wanderer wrote: >> >> Well, as an user who read the list it came to my mind the implementation >> of auto-save in Gimp. > > Keep in mind that it could not be as trivial as it sounds. Image files > processed in G

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:13:10 +0400 From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com To: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: FontForge crashes. A lot. So much that the program makes an autosave of yo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: > FontForge crashes. > > A lot. > > So much that the program makes an autosave of your open project every 60 > seconds or so. Consider yourself lucky if you open a FF project file and > DON'T get a message asking whether to restore your p

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
On 25/07/12 07:44, wanderer wrote: Well, as an user who read the list it came to my mind the implementation of auto-save in Gimp. I guess you already had that discussion, but I think that a good software is the one that understand that us, mere mortals human beings, make a lot of mistakes and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:33:22 -0700 From: artfoundr...@yahoo.com To: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org Subject: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology Yesterday, I wrote a letter out of frustration in regards to GIMP. Sending emails borne of frustration is like driving yourself home after having to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Skand Hurkat
On 25-07-2012 16:14, wanderer wrote: Well, as an user who read the list it came to my mind the implementation of auto-save in Gimp. I guess you already had that discussion, but I think that a good software is the one that understand that us, mere mortals human beings, make a lot of mistakes an

Re: [Gimp-developer] A letter of complaint

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 12-07-23 04:22 PM, Michael Henning wrote: I suppose you've never used Windows ME **shudder** Just typing the name brings back memories. I used to use it a long time ago. I don't understand why some people say it's one of the worst versions of Windows. I always found ME to be at least

Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

2012-07-25 Thread Elle Stone
>So please, just go ahead, look at the patches in bugzilla, pick the >best stuff from your patches and the bugzilla ones, and all will be >fine. OK, I'm working on it. And I promise to keep communicating actively. I'm making two Gimp from git installations, one for the existing lcms2 patches (than

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread wanderer
Well, as an user who read the list it came to my mind the implementation of auto-save in Gimp. I guess you already had that discussion, but I think that a good software is the one that understand that us, mere mortals human beings, make a lot of mistakes and try in some manner to reduce the ran

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UI ... hesitant about compiling a list...

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Grosberg
RMMjr gmail.com> writes: > > I caught this e-mail address on someone's signature line in a post... > Well you're certainly a verbose one... I'll be brief though: What you think are UI issues are actually code issues. The boundaries and floating layers are not there by choice exactly. there is

Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Natterer
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 17:37 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: > Perhaps what I really should be asking is what is the process by which > an existing patch to the Gimp code is applied so that everyone can use > it? Your way of doing patches *and* actively communicating is the only way that will guarantee yo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread SorinN
mr. Tanaka, I use GIMP since the year 2000 Maybe I can help you to identify some key points in your "crash experience" I've used GIMP for almost every artwork I've done along Photoshop - just because some things goes faster (not as computing speed) but as operation logic ( workflow if you like ...