Re: [Gimp-developer] Some more open issues for 2.0

2004-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Tim Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >- gimp.spec should not be in the tarball > > Why not? Because our experience in the pre-releases has shown that it is extremely difficult to provide a working spec file. And even if we managed to provide on, it would be specific for a particular dis

[Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, just found these screenshots on gnomedesktop.org: http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/filechooser-gimp.png http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/filechooser-save.png Looks like thanks to the feedback from Mitch and many others, the GTK+ filechooser is getting somewhere in the end :) People will soo

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: People will soon start to ask why GIMP 2.0 doesn't use the new filechooser yet. Not sure how we would best react to this. We should just say that GTK+ 2.4 is not out yet, and we can't base stable software on an unstable toolkit. Especially since we've been in a pre-release

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Dave, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We should just say that GTK+ 2.4 is not out yet, and we can't base > stable software on an unstable toolkit. Especially since we've been in > a pre-release freeze for 3 months. By the time that GIMP 2.0 is release, GTK+ 2.4 will be released as we

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: The target, I guess, is to have a GIMP based on 2.4 around the time where distros start shipping GNOME 2.6. Which will probably be towards the end of the Summer. Distros will start shipping GNOME 2.6 shortly after it has been released and the release schedule for GNOME 2.6

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread David Odin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:25:47PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We should just say that GTK+ 2.4 is not out yet, and we can't base > > stable software on an unstable toolkit. Especially since we've been in > > a pre-release freeze for 3 mo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Some more open issues for 2.0

2004-03-11 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 11, 2004, at 12:09 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Because our experience in the pre-releases has shown that it is extremely difficult to provide a working spec file. And even if we managed to provide on, it would be specific for a particular distribution. So we should either provide spec files for

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and the new GTK+ filechooser

2004-03-11 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 11, 2004, at 4:52 pm, Dave Neary wrote: So who does that leave? I'm not sure what Suse's release schedule is, but based on the above, the first mainstream distro with GNOME 2.6 in a release will be either Fedora Core 2 in May, or Mandrake in August or September. That is, unless Debian de