Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-22 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Jens Lautenbacher wrote: > what remains in this case is that things like clear selection (on the > bg layer) suddenly start to behave differently, depending if there's a > layer above the background layer or not. Ick. > I'd vote for always having an alpha layer. seems to be cleaner >

Re: [Gimp-developer] introduction + localisation questions

2001-02-23 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > The file README.i18n in the gimp tree provides more information > that might be interesting for you. Uhoh, that reminds me that it's really needed to rewrite that file... :) -- Servus, Daniel ___ Gimp-devel

Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-23 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > We'll face one problem if we decide to make alpha the default for all > images: A lot of fileformats do not understand alpha and you actually > don't want to save the alpha channel with the image at all if you > never touched it. One way to solve this would be to

Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-24 Thread egger
On 23 Feb, Nick Lamb wrote: >> Does this mean that you agree to ditching all the special code >> for the 3 and 1 byte case as well? I'd really love to see this >> changes although as already stated this might introduce a bit >> memory overhead in case the user didn't use the alpha channel >>

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-27 Thread egger
On 23 Feb, Michael Meeks wrote: > I don't know what the gimp protocol is - clearly for _massive_ > chunks of data, shared memory is the only way to go. Vladimir has a > nice CORBA interface for dealing with setting up shmem chunks to do > this I think for his video editing toy. ORBi

Re: [Gimp-developer] A typo in preferences_dialog.c

2001-03-05 Thread egger
On 4 Mar, Sven Neumann wrote: > Oh, that preferences code really sucks. Hope we will be able to redo > it properly for 1.4 (eventually using gconf ?!). Anyway, thanks for > the patch, I'll apply it to both branches. We should really start discussing which dependencies would be acceptable to

Re: [Gimp-developer] A typo in preferences_dialog.c

2001-03-06 Thread egger
On 6 Mar, Nick Lamb wrote: >> We should really start discussing which dependencies would be >> acceptable to introduce. I'd really like to see gconf for >> configuration files and freetype2 for fontrendering to get rid of >> the X dependency and the all time sucker "standard font tool". And

Re: [Gimp-developer] Patches to 1.2.1 for --with-included-gettext and HP-UX 11.00

2001-03-06 Thread egger
On 6 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> PS: IMHO we should change the policy for patches. Handling them via >> FTP has never worked that well. Patches should go to the list >> (preferably with the word [patch] in the subject) or/and to bugzilla. > Why not use SourceForge to manage patches? B

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg files

2001-03-11 Thread egger
On 10 Mar, peter pajak wrote: > i've installed gimp 1.2.1, works great, but i can not neither open nor > save a jpeg file, i had all the required components (jpeg-6b included) > but still does not work. running on freebsd. Peter, is JPEG listed as file format in the save dialog? What does "ldd

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug in Sobel edge detect?

2001-03-11 Thread egger
On 11 Mar, Austin Donnelly wrote: > Here's a patch that fixes this, relative to the sobel.c that's in > 1.2.1. Can someone stick this in stable CVS and also merge it with > the current development head. Thanks! Good spotting. Applied to HEAD and GIMP1.2 branch -- Servus, Daniel

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Palette handling reasoning questions

2001-03-11 Thread egger
On 11 Mar, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: >> I strongly discourage you however from trying to work with current >> gimp from CVS HEAD. It should become useable again in a few months. > Who said work? Install 1.3, test a bit ("oh it loads, oh it paints, > new color selector, booom,

Re: [Gimp-developer] [patch] gimp 1.2.0 screenshot bug

2001-03-15 Thread egger
On 15 Mar, Tom Holroyd wrote: > Please apply this patch, if it hasn't been applied already... > Setting values[1] causes a segfault. Strange that this hasn't been discovered before... Sven already applied the patch... -- Servus, Daniel ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Gimp at the Linuxtag 2001

2001-03-15 Thread egger
On 15 Mar, Jens Finke wrote: >> If this is not possible I'd like to ask, if there is a Gnome >> booth and if they would mind sharing a booth with us. > Yes, there will be a Gnome booth with nearly the same crew than the > last year (about 5 people). Joey (the LinuxTag organisator) promised > me

Re: [Gimp-developer] couple possible TODO items

2001-03-28 Thread egger
On 27 Mar, Zachary Beane wrote: > Are credit cards of a standard size? Should be. I wouldn't trust sticking them into a machine otherwise. -- Servus, Daniel ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mai

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-china-010306-0

2001-04-04 Thread egger
On 2 Apr, Sven Neumann wrote: > it, rebuild gimp and give it a little testing. Once it gets applied, > we should consider doing a 1.2.2 release probably including the > updated HTML help files from the gimp-help CVS module. That would be nice indeed. -- Servus, Daniel

Re: [Gimp-developer] [patch] Major speedup for whirl&pinch plugin

2001-04-09 Thread egger
On 5 Apr, Kelly Martin wrote: > Tiles are 64x64 by default, and changing them is a bad idea because it > makes your .xcf files nontransportable. Not to forget that this size is more or less hardcoded. -- Servus, Daniel ___ Gimp-developer m

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bugs 52383 and 52385

2001-04-22 Thread egger
On 21 Apr, Mike Kelly wrote: > A month ago I submitted two bug reports using Bugzilla. To date, they > remain in the "UNCONFIRMED" state. I've already patched my version of > GIMP as per bug 52383, so this doesn't really bother me except that it > seems to me that others might benefit from it.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bugs 52383 and 52385

2001-04-24 Thread egger
On 23 Apr, Raphael Quinet wrote: > This bug report shows that the default owner is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] We could do that too, and all bug > reports that are currently assigned to Daniel could be re-assigned to > the Gimp bugs list. Agreed. -- Servus, Daniel ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help needed with unconfirmed gimp bugs (especially for Windows)

2001-04-25 Thread egger
On 25 Apr, Sven Neumann wrote: >> I am trying to help Daniel (and others, hopefully) by dealing with >> the bug reports in bugzilla. > Have you already changed Bugzilla so it sends email about new > bug-reports and changes to existing bug-reports? Impossible so far. We first need a [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help needed with unconfirmed gimp bugs (especially for Windows)

2001-04-25 Thread egger
On 26 Apr, Michael Natterer wrote: > Seems I am not an administrator (or however this is called in Mozilla) > for the GIMP module. However when we first talked on IRC about moving > all bugs to Mozilla we talked about adding Daniel, Yosh, Sven and > myself as the initial administrators. > So,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help needed with unconfirmed gimp bugs (especially for Windows)

2001-04-26 Thread egger
On 26 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do, however when I spilled out some rights you hadn't had an > accout... I'll change that later Interesting, you already had the rights but Sven didn't. I thought it was the other round. Anyway. The initial owner of most of the bugs is now [EMAI

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP on multi-user systems

2001-04-30 Thread egger
On 30 Apr, Allan West wrote: > The GIMP documentation, which seems to be aimed at single-user Linux > boxes, suggests setting its "Tile Cache" to half your physical RAM or > all of your available RAM. This is obviously not appropriate for 30 > concurrent sessions of GIMP. Can anyone provide a rul

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP website project planning

2001-05-27 Thread egger
On 27 May, Garry R. Osgood wrote: > I'll be happy (scratch that: "content") to inventory others and > document them in bugzilla, where they can be tracked. > Objections? Great idea. > Should "Gimp Web" be a tracking project separate from "Gimp" the > program? I'd say that a website for an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Perl server problem

2001-06-01 Thread egger
On 1 Jun, Raphael Quinet wrote: > Now I see for the first time a comment saying that some old > unstable release is more stable than 1.2.x, so I am a bit > surprised... I would like you to elaborate a bit on the > stability problems of 1.2.x, and if possible to report this > in bugzilla. > If

Re: [Gimp-developer] Perl server problem

2001-06-02 Thread egger
On 2 Jun, Sven Neumann wrote: > I'd like to see your script or at least have a description of what it > did so we can try to debug the behaviour you are describing. Using > memprof it should be possible to find your leaks. The last time I checked GIMP with memprof it didn't show any unexpected

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.2.2

2001-07-27 Thread egger
On 27 Jul, Sven Neumann wrote: > Please excuse this inconvenience and let's hope the new tarballs > work for you. Really bad idea. This means that there are two versions of 1.2.2 floating around; one which build and one that doesn't. I'd REALLY suggest to update the version number Servus

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp interface streamlining

2003-09-12 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Fre, 2003-09-12 um 11.25 schrieb Simon Budig: > It would be nice to have more keys available to the tools. I'd love > to get the Del-Key working for deletion of nodes in the path tool... The del key is a bad choice. Quite a few GIMP users have Apple machines which don't have a del key. -- Ser

Re: Apple has no Delete Key [Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp interface streamlining]

2003-09-13 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Sam, 2003-09-13 um 23.30 schrieb Marco Wessel: > It is true that the Apple keyboards that used to come with the iMacs, B/W > G3s and G4s don't have a del key. However, this keyboard has long since > been replaced with the full-sized keyboard, which does have the key. Just curious, where is it

Re: Apple has no Delete Key [Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp interface streamlining]

2003-09-13 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Sam, 2003-09-13 um 22.38 schrieb Alan Horkan: > Delete is such a particularly good and obvious keybinding for Deleting > things Actually I believe that having both a backspace and a delete key is confusing in the original wordprocessing meaning; why would one want to delete a character followi

Re: [Gimp-developer] PO files

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Die, 2003-09-16 um 19.10 schrieb David Neary: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this the official new list for the GTP? If so README.i18n should be changed. -- Servus, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [Gimp-developer] PO files

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Mit, 2003-09-17 um 13.29 schrieb Sven Neumann: > > Is this the official new list for the GTP? If so README.i18n should be > > changed. > I might have missed something but what exactly do you think needs to > be changed in README.i18n? I read in the thread that the GTP contact address is dead,

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status and suggestions

2003-11-16 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Son, den 16.11.2003 schrieb Roman Joost um 00:46: > This is the actual structure. I made a "find ./ -type d" in the gimp-help-2 > and removed the CVS directorys: Agreed. Howver since a few persons are not too happy with the all-languages-concurrently approach I'd like to hear their opinion fir

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status and suggestions

2003-11-23 Thread Daniel Egger
On Nov 22, 2003, at 3:11 pm, Roman Joost wrote: I moved the "stylesheets" directory into the source root. I will change it in the next days, after Daniel will give me the ok. No one has declined the new structure purposal, so i think, that everyone on gimp-help-2 gave this implicit OK to change it

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status and suggestions

2003-11-24 Thread Daniel Egger
On Nov 24, 2003, at 12:02 am, Roman Joost wrote: I tried it with some docs and it rocks. Unfortunately, i'm running into trouble with the german umlauts. Do you've a solution for keeping the umlauts ? We'll switch to UTF-8 which should solve this problem, unless I'm misunderstanding the issue, of

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 updated

2003-12-01 Thread Daniel Egger
On Nov 28, 2003, at 11:29 pm, Roman Joost wrote: I'll remove the entities, which are mapping the german umlauts to the correct unicode entity (if i'm right). If i understand Daniel correctly, we should be able to write normal umlauts with a proper UTF-8 encoding. It wasn't clear enough for me, wh

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status

2003-12-11 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Mit, den 10.12.2003 schrieb Roman Joost um 22:55: > With Raymonds help i'm now be able to build the help with UTF-8 encoded > XML files, which are "xincluded" in the gimp.xml file. Cool. Incidently I've also been working on this and my Mac really has troubles when trying to compile such files

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 - TODOs and ideas

2003-12-17 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Mit, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Roman Joost um 21:30: > 1. Renaming of the current XML files, that the corresponding help ids: > app/widgets/gimphelp-ids.h. This is mostly done by me. I'll check the > changes in as soon as possible. Huh? Probably it's just me being dense... > 2. Adding X

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 - TODOs and ideas

2003-12-19 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Roman Joost um 16:10: > > Huh? Probably it's just me being dense... > Heh - no. I shouldn't write mails during a lecture ... The existing XML > files are renamed to the name of the help ids in > $GIMP/app/widgets/gimphelp-ids.h, eg: airbrush.xml is now: > tool-airbru

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status

2003-12-19 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Roman Joost um 15:53: > Hm.. i didn't had any memory problems with XInclude. If the encoding was > wrong, the xsltproc throw an error and nothing more ... I still do, but only under Mac OSX. More annoying with XInclude is that xsltproc cannot be taught to really loa

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 status

2003-12-19 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Fre, den 19.12.2003 schrieb Sven Neumann um 19:55: > I am pretty sure it loads the DTD from disk if you provide it an XML > catalog file that shows it where the DTD is found. This file is > usually called /etc/xml/catalog. See http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html I have this catalog file and xsltpr

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP on Mac OS X

2003-12-26 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Fre, den 26.12.2003 schrieb Sven Neumann um 21:49: > there's another thing I forgot to mention that might be worth to look > into when it comes to GIMP on Mac OS X. The new compositing code that > Helvetix added already provides the framework for making use of > Altivec instructions. If someone

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-05 Thread Daniel Egger
On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:49 am, Roman Joost wrote: 3. I made the corresponding changes to the toolbox XML files and the stylesheets and added three new options: a) The processor includes the titles up to section3. b) The processor chunks the documents up to section3 (Before, all the tools are

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On Jan 10, 2004, at 1:45 pm, David Neary wrote: I hope these kinds of comments aren't out of place. I have noticed that commits to gimp-help-2 are fairly infrequent, and tend to affect lots of files. It is better all round if there are more frequent commits, each one making a distinct change. This

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On Jan 10, 2004, at 4:38 pm, David Neary wrote: It kind of does - it's not changeset oriented in the way that BK or Arch are, but checking in several files at once is possible, and cvs2svn manages to make changesets out of commits that happen with the same comment, at the same time, by the same pe

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-11 Thread Daniel Egger
On Jan 11, 2004, at 11:00 am, raymond ostertag wrote: cd ../html/C && /usr/bin/xsltproc --xinclude --nonet ../../stylesheets/plainhtml.xsl ../../src/gimp.xml Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd ../../src/gimp.xml:6: warning: failed to load external

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-11 Thread Daniel Egger
lt 10101 and libexslt 801 libxslt 10101 was compiled against libxml 20603 libexslt 801 was compiled against libxml 20603 lucy:/sw egger$ xsltproc --version Using libxml 20602, libxslt 10100 and libexslt 800 xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20602, libxslt 10100 and libexslt 800 libxslt 1010

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-help-2 news ...

2004-01-11 Thread Daniel Egger
On Jan 11, 2004, at 3:23 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: The DTDs are absolutely necessary in order to process the files. No, they are not. They are needed for some advanced DOM validation but one can very well process whole books without it. http://sven.gimp.org/build-xml-catalog-for-debian.sh Thanks, w

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dithering

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 20, 2004, at 5:48 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Well, actually we'd like to add interpolation to the GIMP canvas as well. At least optionally. Modern computer hardware seems fast enough to do this, espec

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dithering

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Adam D. Moss um 20:28: > > In OSX many applications tend to provide a quick redraw for pannings > > but start a timer which will refine the display once it was static > > for a while. > Hee hee... it's interesting how things can come full-circle. > GIMP 0.5[34] did

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help translating GIMP

2004-01-31 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:15 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I'd like to retranslate GIMP in italian, the current translation almost sucks. I searched the main site but I haven't found anything, couls omeone tell me how to do it? Talk to Daniele Medri <[EMAI

[Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X (was: Re: Misnamed structure element in SFScript structure?)

2004-02-05 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2004, at 5:20 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Are there any numbers you can base this statement on? I don't think this assumption is correct. Not that it would matter much but I doubt there are more Win32 GIMP users than Linux GIMP users. I'd also li

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-05 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:39 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: FWIW I'm using GIMP 1.2 under OS X and suspect that there might be a few freaks who do so, too simply because it's easily to install if there's fink on the machine. Installing gimp2 should be about as ea

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-06 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:35 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )> wrote: It helps to a) avoid antialiasing (small effect) b) use x fonts (big effect). Thanks for this tip. I'll try installing some high quality X fonts (which is sort of an Oxymo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-06 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:26 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: You will need Darwinports (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/) but IMO darwinports is an improvement over fink. Of course your mileage may vary. Too complicated to install, at least I did and since I alr

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-06 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 6, 2004, at 4:32 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Checking out a cvs repository and typing "configure; make; make install" doesn't sound too complicated to me. It is, especially when it doesn't work out-of-the-box. Also this is equivalently complicated t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-06 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 6, 2004, at 5:12 pm, Tim Mooney wrote: I haven't played with OS X enough to know, but does its X server support the Render extension? If not, that's probably why GTK+ 2 is slower. number of extensions:28 Apple-DRI Apple-WM BIG-

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tentative 2.2 feature list

2004-02-06 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 6, 2004, at 7:25 pm, Kevin Cozens wrote: While researching Guile as a replacement for Script-Fu, Guile is a nasty beast. Gnucash is one of the hardest to compile and keep working applications just because of their use of guile. I'm not really su

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tentative 2.2 feature list

2004-02-07 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 7, 2004, at 1:14 am, Tim Mooney wrote: As I recall, the SIOD that's part of gimp is not a "stock" version of SIOD, as there were various bugs detected and fixed in SIOD in the 0.99.x and 1.2.x gimp releases. There *may* be fixes in the gimp's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Egger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:06 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Daniel recently posted a list of X extensions supported by the Apple X11 server. The MIT-SHM extension was part of this list but today I found that at least in darwinports gtk2 is compiled with the --dis

Re: [Gimp-developer] Costs estimates

2004-02-24 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 24, 2004, at 11:13 am, Sven Neumann wrote: Ugh! I can't find airfare there any cheaper than about US$1500. Has anyone from the US found a much better deal? Did you also check flights going to Oslo? I'd rather check the flights with a slighty longer stay instead. 6 nights and the flights

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-24 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:51 pm, Nathan Carl Summers wrote: IIRC, didn't early versions of OS X have truly pitiful amounts of shared memory available? Perhaps that is the reason. So now I recompiled GTK 2.2.4 with SHM and I cannot sense any difference in behaviour. However scrolling in gnumeric is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-25 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 25, 2004, at 10:11 am, Sven Neumann wrote: Did you increase the shared memory limit? I am not sure what happens if it the X server hits the limit but I guess it just silently stops allocating more shared memory. Err, I know somewhat how to mess with POSIX SHM in applications but how can I c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-26 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 25, 2004, at 11:27 pm, Daniel Rogers wrote: sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=41943040 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=320 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=80 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=10240 DUH! How could I possibly forget about sysctl. That doesn't seem to work though: lucy:~

Re: [Gimp-developer] Funding for GIMP or CinePaint

2004-02-26 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 25, 2004, at 10:35 am, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Image manipulation is one of the key application areas that needs to be addressed for open source tools to become the mainstream desktop environment. I'm currently funding a number of different open source projects, and am considering fundi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on OS X

2004-02-26 Thread Daniel Egger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:38 pm, Daniel Rogers wrote: Who knows? Who cares? but you do need to edit /etc/rc to see any effect. Thanks for the explanation. I did just what you told me and retested, but it doesn't have any positive impact on the slowness. Servus, Daniel PGP.sig Description: T

Re: [Gimp-developer] Project structure

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 9, 2004, at 10:46 pm, Roman Joost wrote: If the gimp-help-2 team has nothing against this, it'll be okey for me to be published on the site. Certainly fine with me. Servus, Daniel PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Gimp-developer] Re: the GIMP help system, i18n and other problems

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 10, 2004, at 8:41 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Okay, I have some idea how this all might work. Regarding the "topic not found"-fallback: I think we should simply add some hidden texts in every language which can be mapped as fallback. Those are strictly required for every language and should

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

Re: [Gimp-developer] the GIMP help system, i18n and other problems

2004-03-13 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 12, 2004, at 1:59 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: What I dislike about this is that the base for the references in the XML files is not the directory the XML file is located in. So there's some special knowledge needed to interpret the references. I suggest this structure intead: ${gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] no ppd file usable with gimp2.0pre4?

2004-03-14 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 14, 2004, at 12:54 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: Such an image file is kept seperate from the rest of the system. So there's no chance that whatever library you add there could collide with other software on the system. Assumed that I understood this correctly, but that's what I have been told by

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp.app application bundle

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel Egger
On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:53 pm, Aaron Voisine wrote: Here are the links. It's hosted on a cable modem, so be gentle. Now this is really cool! I'd really appreciate if we could put them somewhere on the official servers. If not, would it be an option for you to open a sourceforge project? Servus,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp.app application bundle

2004-03-21 Thread Daniel Egger
On 17.03.2004, at 17:53, Aaron Voisine wrote: I have a self contained application bundle for the gimp on os x. Would this be of use as a binary download for the mac? It's only external dependency is that you have X11.app install somewhere on your system. I finally came around to test the GIMP.app

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-04 Thread Daniel Egger
On 04.06.2004, at 13:37, Ellen Reitmayr wrote: 7. German translation - Some words are misleading We've had many iterations through the translation already and in many cases (I at least) were not quite sure how to translate some phrases. If you could come up with some suggestions I'd certainly appre

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-04 Thread Daniel Egger
On 04.06.2004, at 17:05, Ellen Reitmayr wrote: uuu, that's a translation problem! in english the button says: 'Create Selection from Path' in german it says: 'Pfad aus Auswahl' (Create Path from Selection) I think Daniel Egger is the right one to tell that, no? Any Ger

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-04 Thread Daniel Egger
On 04.06.2004, at 16:20, Carol Spears wrote: If you could come up with some suggestions I'd certainly appreciate that. okay, how does photoshop translate their stuff into german? I expect they have a highly paid team of artists and professional translators. Or do you mean that we should copy their

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-12 Thread Daniel Egger
On 07.06.2004, at 20:04, William Skaggs wrote: The main reason not to use convmatrix is that internally it always does a 5x5 convolution, regardless of the matrix entries. This means it should take almost three times as long as the 3x3 convolution in blur.c; in fact, a little testing on a 5000 x 1

Re: [Gimp-developer] New feature inquiry.

2004-07-18 Thread Daniel Egger
On 18.07.2004, at 03:07, Christopher W. Curtis wrote: And we want it rendered using glitz! http://freedesktop.org/Software/glitz ... but seriously, does anyone think it's possible to offload processing to the GPU? Is that part of the GEGL pipe goals? I didn't see anything at the site in the doc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developing a GIMP plugin (2 questions)

2004-07-22 Thread Daniel Egger
On 22.07.2004, at 23:19, Simon Budig wrote: We use the gettext library to determine what language the text in our user interface should be. In fact gettext does all the hard work for us. Not quite but almost. :) The choice of language is expressed by setting environment variables. Those are picked

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wording in German: Toolbox

2004-07-26 Thread Daniel Egger
On 26.07.2004, at 17:12, Roman Joost wrote: I was digging a bit around in the net to find out, which word is more used for the Toolbox: "Werkzeugfenster" or "Werkzeugkasten". The most tutorials I found are using "Werkzeugkasten", even Sven uses "Werkzeugkasten" in his book. But "Werkzeugfenster" is

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-docs] contributing to gimp-help-2

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Egger
On 15.09.2004, at 18:06, William Skaggs wrote: This is for anybody interested in contributing to the Gimp Help 2 / User Manual. Very nice. Can we put that somewhere? The Wiki seems like a nice place for it. Servus, Daniel PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Gimp-developer] adding a help button to GimpDialog

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel Egger
On 03.10.2004, at 17:51, Sven Neumann wrote: We can of course add a gimprc option for the Help button but my question is if it is a good idea to add such a button per default. I like your idea very much. It might make sense to get an opinion from the usability guys though. Maybe have any suggestion

Re: [Gimp-developer] adding a help button to GimpDialog

2004-10-04 Thread Daniel Egger
On 04.10.2004, at 10:28, Sven Neumann wrote: It might make sense to get an opinion from the usability guys though. Maybe have any suggestions how to address the potential issues you've raised. Who are the usability guys? Ellen Reitmayr would be a good start. Maybe the Ximian usability guys or the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-docs] adding a help button to GimpDialog

2004-10-05 Thread Daniel Egger
On 05.10.2004, at 13:20, Sven Neumann wrote: authors...". IMO this is acceptable. It would however be interesting to know how many of the help-ids are already covered in gimp-help-2. Do such figures exist? In the gimp-help-2 module there is a docs/makeStatistics.py written by Roman which is suppose

Re: [Gimp-developer] forwarded message from c't computer magazine

2004-10-06 Thread Daniel Egger
On 06.10.2004, at 19:45, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Again this c't magazine asking for permission to put GIMP (for Windows, presumably) on a CD-ROM. Could some of our German developers try to tell them once more that they don't have to ask me (or anybody else) for permission. (And on the other hand, even

Re: [Gimp-docs] Re: [Gimp-developer] Help system

2004-10-25 Thread Daniel Egger
On 24.10.2004, at 20:36, Sven Neumann wrote: The help system has always been designed that way. The problem was with the way the help pages get generated from the DocBook sources. During that process empty pages were generated instead of no pages. Thus, the language fallback in the help system coul

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Newsprint

2004-10-30 Thread Daniel Egger
On 30.10.2004, at 15:09, Sven Neumann wrote: Welcome to Hotel Wilma. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave! Wilma? What happened to hotel California? ;) Servus, Daniel PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel Egger
On 12.11.2004, at 01:13, Steve Stavropoulos wrote: If the OS has better virtual memory than what available to gimp, then you would want to use that one. In Linux, I think in most cases, you would want to use the (often in multiple disks) swap partitions/files available to the OS. GIMP does tile sw

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel Egger
On 12.11.2004, at 13:12, Sven Neumann wrote: The operating system imposes a limit on the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated by a process. IIRC the limit is 3GB on Linux. Typically the splitting point (user/kernel and peripheral memory) would be 2:2, but there is a way to easily get 3:1

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel Egger
On 12.11.2004, at 15:51, Sven Neumann wrote: That allows you to stuff more RAM into your box but you can still only give up to 4GB to a single process simply because you cannot handle more than 4GB in a 32bit address space. You can, but not using the typical APIs. This is pretty important for datab

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel Egger
On 12.11.2004, at 18:51, Manish Singh wrote: You can, but not using the typical APIs. This is pretty important for database stuff Whose use case is very different than GIMP's. And you do use the typical APIs, but the user does have to setup the shmfs on their own. And then you have to select

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-14 Thread Daniel Egger
On 13.11.2004, at 08:48, Manish Singh wrote: shm is a special case. I'm talking about allocating highmem segments. So, what is the userspace API for this? AFAIK there's no direct userspace helper to address highmem segments; one can only map them in the Linux kernel and provide them to userspace (

Re: [Gimp-developer] comparing gimp speed

2004-11-14 Thread Daniel Egger
On 13.11.2004, at 07:45, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: t's a whole bunch of contortions, and all pointless since amd64 hardware is competitively priced these days. please dont concentrate only on those who can change pcs like shirts, concentrate on us poor people too. ;) Actually my focus is on havin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Egger
On 06.12.2004, at 19:44, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: But nowadays, who seriously uses it? I do. It's not very useful to mask an object in a low contrast environment but it works perfectly well for instance to mask an digitally photographed object against a somewhat distant background to only

Re: [Gimp-developer] A way to do 16 bits?

2004-12-15 Thread Daniel Egger
On 15.12.2004, at 20:16, William Skaggs wrote: I've been thinking about three things that are highly desired but have been waiting for the migration to gegl: support for 16 bits, layer groups, and procedural layers. It seems to me that all of them can be achieved in GIMP 2 without major infrastru

Re: [Gimp-developer] A way to do 16 bits?

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel Egger
On 16.12.2004, at 02:13, Sven Neumann wrote: The point you are missing is that we can't expect GEGL to mature into anything useable if we continue to not using it. The only way to make things happen is to do them. I am certainly not going to accept any such kludges in GIMP since we should finally g

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg-exif development summary

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel Egger
On 05.01.2005, at 18:27, Dave Neary wrote: Before people get high-horsey about this, consider that 90% of digital cameras have embedded DOS as their OS, and are thus unable to generate files which are not 8.3. I don't think it is pretty safe to assume that FAT support means that anything close to

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg-exif development summary

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel Egger
On 05.01.2005, at 22:37, Carol Spears wrote: canon rebel uses DOS. Possibly only as a bootloader or datashifter. According to http://www.alexbernstein.com/wiki/CanonDigitalRebelHacking the camera has three different processors and it is more than unlikely that the 80186 compatible processor is used

Re: [Gimp-developer] Roadmap

2005-01-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On 09.01.2005, at 18:39, William Skaggs wrote: 1) New rectangle select tool that allows adjustment of rectangle after creation. (Implemented in my personal tree with the exception of keybindings. Implemented as a separate tool, so it can be tested and improved without losing the standard rect-sel

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg-exif development summary

2005-01-10 Thread Daniel Egger
On 10.01.2005, at 16:52, Jakub Steiner wrote: Unless I'm being told untruth about the losslessness (soundss great, doesn't it?), the metaphor of not messing around with negatives isn't appropriate. It depends very much on how clever the tools are regarding the EXIF information; if an image is rotat

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