Re: [Gimp-developer] git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

2012-01-01 Thread Robert Krawitz
with CUPS in order for GIMP's print dialog to see the printer? FYI: I built Gutenprint's plugin and it sees the printer okay. Gutenprint uses a hacked-up mechanism based on lpstat or lpc (as appropriate) to query printers. It's ugly, but it works on a wide variety of systems. -- Robert

Re: [Gimp-developer] present xcf as what it is, a gimp project file format

2012-06-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
. Forcing you to do something non-obvious in the case of doing a quick edit to a JPEG isn't. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM

Re: [Gimp-developer] present xcf as what it is, a gimp project file format

2012-06-17 Thread Robert Krawitz
, JPEG save already warns if the image has multiple layers. the success of this design is validated by the reaction of the target user groups, which ‘get it’ instantly, although I also changed _their_ keyboard shortcuts and put ‘unsaved changes’ dialogs in their way. -- Robert Krawitz

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Krawitz
to make stupid dialogs go away ASAP. If they don't, their bad fortune. Making a common operation less convenient for everyone because some user may not realize what's going on -- and no way to turn off the inconvenience -- is unnecessarily paternalistic, IMHO. -- Robert Krawitz

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:13:29 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: If they don't, their bad fortune.  Making a common operation less convenient for everyone because some user may not realize what's going on -- and no way to turn off

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

2012-06-21 Thread Robert Krawitz
that separation on a user level. 5. Which makes us wrong. In other words, you've just given us an example that supports our vision, while claiming that it contradicts it. That's one hell of an IMHO from you :) -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987

Re: [Gimp-developer] Purple fringing removal extension

2012-07-14 Thread Robert Krawitz
chromatic aberration will affect the entire image field (including the very center) more or less equally. Martin's tool looks very impressive, particularly for those of us who have the Canon 85 f/1.8 -- a truly great lens marred only by a fair bit of purple fringing at large apertures. -- Robert

Re: [Gimp-developer] Purple fringing removal extension

2012-07-14 Thread Robert Krawitz
become a very important part of a photographic workflow. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League

Re: [Gimp-developer] Purple fringing removal extension

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:54:50 -0700, Martin Jambon wrote: On 07/14/2012 03:56 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:19:52 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Martin Jambon wrote: Hi, I am totally new here but I wrote a standalone program that does

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
will, and clear the modified flag). -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
and dirty or a major project. Having to remember different commands to do curves, sharpening, denoise, levels, and such isn't very productive. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:33:45 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: XCF is always the internal state of the document. Images get imported into an internal XCF, not opened and manipulated directly. Yes, I know. But the *option* isn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:36:30 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 12:04 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:40:41 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: If you are making use of layers, you're into GIMP territory, and into the territory where saving as JPEG and losing

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Krawitz
, and everything else being derivative, is fine in principle. But it's being taken to the extreme of not recognizing that some things just aren't worth making into a full-blown project. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
that you have no plans to change it. But the amount of heat this has generated ever since GIMP 2.8 came out should suggest to you that perhaps your initial assumptions were incomplete and should be revisited. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
for that 1% or less where I'm mistaken. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
.html It seems that it happened with 2.8 Does it? What makes you think so? https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2012-November/msg00193.html -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:33:06 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: Robert Krawitz (r...@alum.mit.edu) wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:44:12 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: [...] Layer information lost. (Note that this was just a specific scenario to answer Albertos Question if there is a workflow

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:35:59 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu And as I noted before, the GIMP 2.8 behavior does not protect against the kind of overconfidence where you think you're just not going to need the layer information in the future. You've made

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Krawitz
for me if I've lost the undo. Even if I haven't done that, it still causes severe quantization in a lot of cases. If the GIMP folks are worried about data loss, I suggest getting high bit depth working ASAP. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Krawitz
a lot of further changes. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:42:05 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: This may change in future versions - where maybe you won't even have the choice not to save, because saving has become so cheap that it can be done any time, and the program

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re : Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Krawitz
going to take users' needs more seriously, I will. I'd rather not, because this is a trivial issue. But it's a very, very annoying one. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congratulations MIT Engineers men's hoops Final Four! Tall Clubs

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re : Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:13:05 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: All right, let's stop this nonsense. After reading that I honestly expected that it's going to end at... You have every right to do what you please with GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP System Requirements

2013-10-23 Thread Robert Krawitz
users can see in advance how a specific Gimp version works in a specific environment. (Or are there still too many variables?) Yes, there are. There's so much variation in image size, and what people do, out there that none of this would be of any general value at all. -- Robert Krawitz

[Gimp-developer] OT: Looking for a Macintosh maintainer for Gutenprint

2014-01-01 Thread Robert Krawitz
to help bring you up to speed on the particulars of the Mac stuff for the project. Thanks! -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu MIT VI-3 1987 - Congrats MIT Engineers 5 straight men's hoops tourney Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP useability - choosing linear vs perceptually uniform RGB

2015-05-02 Thread Robert Krawitz
, a good thing. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint --http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Krawitz
through this extra hassle? P.S. can you make your mail client reply to the list directly, instead of cc'ing it? The list needs to set the reply-to: to make that work. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http

Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

2015-05-08 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 08 May 2015 17:21:15 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: On 05/08/2015 04:46 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: To what end? Is this to help GIMP users in some way It helps them to get download speeds that are reasonable, even if many (or actually, the more) people download the files at a given

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP useability - choosing linear vs perceptually uniform RGB

2015-05-03 Thread Robert Krawitz
workflow, even if that reason is nothing more than demonstrating what's wrong with it. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org

Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

2015-05-08 Thread Robert Krawitz
on Sourceforge, kernel.org, wherever. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint --http://gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

2015-05-31 Thread Robert Krawitz
to http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ I like the look of that. I suggest that the same change be made to the Mac native installer. -- Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League

Re: [Gimp-developer] Problems with JPG?!

2016-01-31 Thread Robert Krawitz
> >> I can not display images that I have prepared and saved with GIMP 2.8.14 >> (under Windows 10) in jpg-format on my TV or via a digital box (WD TV). > >> Do you have an idea or information !? > > It's most likely the Progressive opti

Re: [Gimp-developer] To developers of GIMP: Process or batch editing - Barrel distortion

2016-09-07 Thread Robert Krawitz
the same distortion characteristics) you can save the parameters and easily apply them to more shots in the future. -- Robert Krawitz <r...@alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the Lea

Re: [Gimp-developer] Participation at Apple Developer Program

2018-03-27 Thread Robert Krawitz
into it. Just a note about this -- in the Mac world, signed binaries are perceived to be a security issue. We (Gutenprint) had always planned to sign our binaries after this came out, but it took us some time to get the details right even with an experienced Mac person on the team and we got a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Robert Krawitz
y idea? > > If memory was truly leaked,  I would have seen 1.35, 2.7, > 4.05... Since there is no significant memory increase, we can assume > that this memory is reused. For the rest, see Øyvind's answer. It's possible that some memory was leaked, just not all of it. -- Robert Krawitz