[Gimp-developer] Gimp printing future direction

2009-08-17 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I guess I created a fuss on the gimp-users mailing list a couple of weeks ago. Now, I want to ask some questions about the state of Gimp printing and its future direction. It seems as though there are now two options to print with Gimp: the gute

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp printing future direction

2009-08-18 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sven, Thanks for your reponse. > It works nicely for me and for most other users. If it doesn't work for > you, then there appears to be a bug or some misconfiguration on your > system. Perhaps you should try to isolate the problem and open a bug

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp printing future direction

2009-08-18 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, > As Sven said, it was decided to decouple GIMP and Gutenprint quite a > while ago. I (as Gutenprint project lead) agree with that decision. > It also gives us opportunities to do things that would be more > difficult if we were tied to th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp printing future direction

2009-08-18 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thank you for the perspective. It seems that the printing part of Gimp is a second-class citizen that doesn't have the refinement of the rest of Gimp. I have always seen Gimp as a Photoshop competitor, so I'm thinking what if my mother-in-law (o