Re: Command Line Options

2000-08-21 Thread Miles O';Neal
Steinar H. Gunderson said... | |But then, most other GNU programs use -V for --version and -v for --verbose, |right? I completely agree that we should strive not to break anything, but the |question is what (if anything) we'll break, vs. the need for consistency. I almost did this when I revamped

PDD file loader

2000-09-05 Thread Miles O';Neal
Is there a PDD file loader? I've been trying to get to the registry, but its SQL server is down... Thanks, Miles

Re: please help (GIMP user)

2000-09-15 Thread Miles O';Neal
Michelle, |When I want to paint/fil using a pattern, it wont work. I choose the |pattern, and the tool I think is the right one, and go and try and draw with |the said pattern on the picture, but it wont let me. What type of image are you using? If it's indexed, try converting it to RGB first

Re: Gimp tool icons

2000-11-03 Thread Miles O';Neal
Zolan Davis said... | |Please tell me the rationale behind having the drawing icons point downwards. Um, it's *natural*? Had you asked why they point from the left, I would understand your question. But the metaphor of using a pencil, or a paintbrush, or the others, is generally pointing down.

the GIMP (fwd)

2000-11-04 Thread Miles O';Neal
This came in on the webmasters alias. I thought everyone working on uit at all should see it. -Miles From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: the GIMP Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:16:25 -0500 at first, i was thin

Re: something that i would like

2000-11-28 Thread Miles O';Neal
the Loial Raven said... | |i would like to be able to move the image being worked on outside (or at |least almost outside) the visable window. Did this go away? I don't have the very latest installed on this machine, but the version I have here does it...

Re: JPEG image 551x528 pixels

2000-11-29 Thread Miles O';Neal
Rob Fletcher said... | |That's OK Jon, please say "Hi" to "Mrs. gimp-developer" :-) Yeah, I kinda wonder about this family, when he can't tell his wife from a shole *slew* of developers... Must live in one of those hi-tech, group marriage allowed places... -Miles

Re: use of the Delete key on Dec keyboard or similar

2000-11-30 Thread Miles O';Neal
Olivier Lecarme said... | |The problem is that the Gimp considers that the key in this position is |always a Backspace, I'm assuming you are using the X Window system and a UNIX variant, based on the systems you mentioned. If so, the issue is probably not the GIMP, since it doesn't know anything

Re: use of the Delete key on Dec keyboard or similar

2000-11-30 Thread Miles O';Neal
Lourens Veen said... | |Right, but then there's another problem (at least for me). How would I |change my Xmodmap so that gimp will do a delete-forward when I press my |delete key? There would have to be at least one X key message that gets |interpreted as such, otherwise modifying Xmodmap to get

Re: How much longer do I have to put up with this shit? (This is NOT a

2000-12-10 Thread Miles O';Neal
I can't address all the issues, but there's an easy one I can. |* I cannot use 90% of GIMP's features from keyboard. Hardly any of the | menus have keyboard shortcuts. You can add all the menu shortcuts you want. They're completely customizable. Given the number and potential mixes of plugins

Re: How much longer do I have to put up with this... (miles o'neal)

2000-12-11 Thread Miles O';Neal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said... |So, my friends, don't get your panties in a bunch because a perfectly |valid email includes the word "shit" in it's title. The only reason I got |this kind of response is either because a) you know about all of these |problems and furious that you can't fix them due to

timecop's menu issue

2000-12-11 Thread Miles O';Neal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said... |Actually, no. Since you were more concerned with professionalism of my |email rather than actually reading it, you missed the part where I talked |about this exact problem. No, the problem had more to do with whether it was worth the effort to read a long, not so well

Re: how to use *.pfb-fonts?

2001-01-04 Thread Miles O';Neal
Max Moritz Sievers said... | |I want to use the freefonts from the contrib-directory. These fonts are |pdf-fonts like those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ but I can't use |them in Gimp (and any other application) (after copying them to this |directory). |Gimp displays only the fonts in /usr

Re: RUN_WITH_LAST_VALUES

2001-02-16 Thread Miles O';Neal
Robert L Krawitz said... | |Under what circumstances is RUN_WITH_LAST_VALUES intended to be used? |Is it something I should be particularly concerned with in the print |plugin, or would dropping it be reasonable? It's for when you want to rerun a plugin withoout having to mess with the values. F

Re: grid plugin

1999-10-25 Thread Miles O';Neal
Zach Beane - MINT said... | |Removing options just for the sake of removing options is pretty |shortsighted. You never know who might be using something in a way you |didn't think of. Err on the side of freedom next time. Boy, howdy!

Re: Menu reorganization

1999-01-16 Thread Miles O';Neal
Michael Natterer said... | |in the middle of reorganizing the core menu items I noticed that the "..."'s |which indicate that the menu item will open a dialog are not used |consistently. | |Is it ok if I add them at all places where they miss?? |(e.g. /Select/[Grow|Shrink|...]) Yes. |And... shou

Re: File->New->Reset

1999-11-29 Thread Miles O';Neal
Marc Lehmann said... | |I don't know what you feel, but I think the new Reset button is definitely |the worst improvement ever. | |Not that such a button is nice, but putting it at the same place where we |had the OK button is definitely _not_ ok, no? This is on the list of things never, EVER to

Re: This Concept is Called Shareware?

1999-12-07 Thread Miles O';Neal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said... | |Hello everyone. I want to let you know about a very successful way to |do business on the Internet. I own my own business and i have |discovered that the best way to market my product is by simply letting |my customers, see it before they buy. Wow. Wish I'd thought o

Re: please...Answer me this question.

1999-12-24 Thread Miles O';Neal
Ian Boreham said... | |The Wilberworks FAQ (http://www.wilberworks.com/faq.html) claims that its |name is Wilber, but that it is a Gimp. Unfortunately this does not clear up |its taxonomy in relation to canines and rodents. Since it's neither canine nor rodent (though rumors persist that it is bo

Re: minimal install?

1999-12-29 Thread Miles O';Neal
Michael J. Hammel said... |It could be argued that the default for the install option should be to |strip binaries and let developers use a special option to not strip them so |that ordinary users wouldn't have to worry about this issue. But I'm not |sure if it's that big a deal or not. Depends

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Miles O';Neal
Sven Neumann said... | |Shouldn't we increase the default for the tile_cache_size? GIMP was shipped |with the default of 10MB years ago. Memory is cheap nowadays and I guess we |can expect the average user to have more RAM available. I'd suggest setting |it to 32MB. I'd say go for it. We could a

Re: Edit Fille behaviour change?

2000-02-04 Thread Miles O';Neal
Kelly Lynn Martin said... | |>What does Photoshop do? | |What does that matter? We've changed the GUI to match PhotoShop more than once. Sometimes it was a good idea, but not always. I don't really care what PhotoShop does; I think this change, even though it seems logical to me, is about 1 ye

Shipping which plugins? (was plugins at SourceForge)

2000-02-05 Thread Miles O';Neal
Michael J. Hammel said... | |I'm curious why any new plug-ins should be added to the core *at all*. |Gimp's distribution is fairly large as it is. Isn't it getting time to |limit additional plug-ins to the core distribution to plug-ins which are |considered "vital" in some way? Even some estoric

Re: Move help menu item to last-on-left not first-on-right?

2000-02-09 Thread Miles O';Neal
Marc Lehmann said... | |a) what does HCI mean? ;) Human-computer interface |b) I always see programs do it the way gimp does it, so there must be | something about it It gets done both ways - depends on the OS, the window manager, the app, the toolkit... I prefer it all the way to the right,

Re: [bug]tiff file crashes GIMP

2000-02-09 Thread Miles O';Neal
Phillip Hoerter said... | |I hope this is the right place to send this, if not please forgive me. |I have a few .tiff files of clip art I am attempting to work with. They |load just fine on a windows machine. but on mine I get errors wit xv, ee, |and the GIMP, then they all crash. The biggest

Re: [bug]tiff file crashes GIMP

2000-02-09 Thread Miles O';Neal
Nick Lamb said... | |this TIFF is broken (illegal) but Gimp should not crash, nor should the |TIFF loader. Agreed. |Fortunately even TIFF requires that a baseline decoder should be able to |rely on certain facts about the image data, this TIFF seems to have |violated the rules in some manner sti

Re: Coding style (was: PROPOSAL: New i18n solution)

2000-02-22 Thread Miles O';Neal
Raphael Quinet said... | |I did not like the GNU style at first (especially the space before the |opening parenthesis) I still don't. Two spaces just isn't enough. Three or four is much better. And I like space before the paren only if it isn't after a function or procedure name. |but now I u

Re: mail to list not sender

2000-02-18 Thread Miles O';Neal
Group replies will go to the list.

Re: fu ?

2000-03-14 Thread Miles O';Neal
Raphael Quinet said... | |On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, FUJITA Yuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> 1. Does anyone know what "fu" is ? | |I think that it was a pun on "kung-fu". Not sure, though. It was. -Miles