Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-27 Thread Skand Hurkat
I'm not sure if that will work either. I mean, non-destructive workflows using GEGL will not work if there is any drawing on canvas, like a layer mask, or painting directly on a layer. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that such operations will again require the megabytes that a layer in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-27 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Skand Hurkat wrote: I'm not sure if that will work either. I mean, non-destructive workflows using GEGL will not work if there is any drawing on canvas, like a layer mask, or painting directly on a layer. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that such

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-26 Thread wanderer
Yes, you got a point... I usually work with small files, but here and then I find myself with large files too. Having them to auto-save could be really time-wasting. But I got happy with these Gegl tree capabilities, already got excited to see it done :) Em 25-07-2012 14:06, Guillermo

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 ...)

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

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

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 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

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 GIMP can

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 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 changes.

[Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-24 Thread Akira Tanaka
Yesterday, I wrote a letter out of frustration in regards to GIMP. I feel that my actions were juvenile, immature and socially unacceptable. I haven't bothered to update the software and in a fit of misguided and dumb rage, I unleashed that attack against those who did not deserve it. I'm not a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-24 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Akira Tanaka artfoundr...@yahoo.comwrote: Yesterday, I wrote a letter out of frustration in regards to GIMP. I feel that my actions were juvenile, immature and socially unacceptable. I haven't bothered to update the software and in a fit of misguided and dumb

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-24 Thread John Harris
I am not intimately familiar with all the compression modes that the plugin supports, but I'll give a stab at a possible cause. The P$D file format provides support for several compression types in it's PSD format. LSW(native), JPG, RLE, plus image pyramid options. It might be possible that during

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-24 Thread sus
On 24/07/12 18:33, Akira Tanaka wrote: Yesterday, I wrote a letter out of frustration in regards to GIMP. I feel that my actions were juvenile, immature and socially unacceptable. I haven't bothered to update the software and in a fit of misguided and dumb rage, I unleashed that attack against