Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, while we are discussing this. Would anyone object if we changed the default tile cache size from 64MB to 128MB? Memory is becoming cheap these days and IMO it is reasonable to adapt the default value from time to time. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mai

[Gimp-developer] proposal

2004-11-16 Thread Endre Gagyi
Dear All,   I’m writing on the behalf of Budapest based Visual Ingenium Ltd. We have started a cooperation last year with the ECDL Foundation in order to develop a new ECDL module for image processing, using GIMP, Photoshop and Corel Photopaint. I think this is a great opportunity for

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Endre Gagyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Do you have any idea show to solve this with GIMP? Is there any >chance to implement this feature in the next version? An action recorder is planned for the future. Not sure though if it will make it into the next version since it's quite a

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread David Neary
Hi Sven Sven Neumann wrote: > while we are discussing this. Would anyone object if we changed the > default tile cache size from 64MB to 128MB? Memory is becoming cheap > these days and IMO it is reasonable to adapt the default value from > time to time. I think that's reasonable. Cheers, Dave.

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
David Neary wrote: Hi Sven Sven Neumann wrote: while we are discussing this. Would anyone object if we changed the default tile cache size from 64MB to 128MB? Memory is becoming cheap these days and IMO it is reasonable to adapt the default value from time to time. I think that's reasonable. More i

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:08:08 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris > The point here is no news for us. > > The GIMP is not as fast as it can possibly be one day for large > images. > > I've put some thought on it these days - (just thinking, no code), and > one idea that came by. What I intend with w

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Soren Hauberg
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, while we are discussing this. Would anyone object if we changed the default tile cache size from 64MB to 128MB? Memory is becoming cheap these days and IMO it is reasonable to adapt the default value from time to time. Wouldn't it make sense to to check to amount of memo

Re: [Gimp-developer] fresh cvs gimp-gap and cvs gimp-2.2 crash

2004-11-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:03:01PM +0100, Popolon wrote: > fresh cvs gimp-gap dosn't compile anymore with gimp-2.0. > > I tried to compile it with fresh cvs (today cvs) That's OK, but it > definitivly crash with unknown symbols, is there anything special to do, > for using it? > hi, i answered

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:27:17PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > More important than a specific default value is IMO that the docs > describe exactly what this setting is for and provide some reasonable > examples for different setups. > > Currently, a user can't really figure out what t

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:27:17PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: More important than a specific default value is IMO that the docs describe exactly what this setting is for and provide some reasonable examples for different setups. Currently, a user can't really figure out

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:52:27PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > > >http://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html > > This is part of the problem - some useful information is kept from users > of other platforms. > i made this problem. wh

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread William Skaggs
Michael Schumacher wrote: >>>Currently, a user can't really figure out what this setting does, at >>>least by reading the docs. >>> >> >> http://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html > > This is part of the problem - some useful information is kept from users > of othe

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:07:31 +0100 > From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed > > Hi, > > while we are discussing this. Would anyone object if we changed the > default tile cac

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Soren Hauberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wouldn't it make sense to to check to amount of memory available on > the machine before suggestion the tile cache size? Haven't we discussed this like 200 times already? > A default tile cache on 128MB wouldn't be nice on a 128MB system (I > gues

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least it could become part of the gimp docs and be translated - > just like the man pages. The man pages are translated? Since when? Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [Gimp-developer] fresh cvs gimp-gap and cvs gimp-2.2 crash

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the gap configure.in file still checks for gimp-2.0 > (this is a bug) I have now changed the configure check in gimp-gap to test for gimp >= 2.2.0 (yes, the pre-releases declare their version as 2.2.0 already). Sven ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread David Neary
Hi, Alan Horkan wrote: > Would it be difficult to query the operating system and to automatically > set the tile cache size to some percentage (50%?) of available RAM? In a portable way, impossible. Having different routines for each platform, perhaps. It would be nice if glib did something like

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At least it could become part of the gimp docs and be translated - just like the man pages. The man pages are translated? Since when? No, they should be - and it would be good to have them in the docs, as almost no one seems

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, they should be - and it would be good to have them in the docs, as > almost no one seems to know about man pages anymore these days. We could consider this for the next release. The gimprc manpage is generated. Since most of these strings

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and it would be good to have them in the docs, as almost no one > seems to know about man pages anymore these days. The GIMP man-pages are online at http://www.gimp.org/unix/man-gimp-2.0.html http://www.gimp.org/unix/man-gimprc-2.0.html ht