Re: [Gimp-docs] Frustration

2012-08-22 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:29:16AM -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> On 22 August 2012 09:53, Chris Violetti  wrote:
> > I decided to teach myself how to use GIMP. I downloaded 2.8 and started with
> > the first beginner tutorial, GIMPLite Quickies, on gimp.org. This tutorial
> > is so out of date it is unusable.  "After completeing the click and drag
> > motion, a little "Crop & Resize Information Dialog" (shown above also) pops
> > up". Ummm, no. It doesn't. Nor could I find this dialog searching through
> > the numerous menus.
> >
> > The copyright notice at the top of the GIMPLite Quickies tutorial webpage
> > (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/) says 2004. Is it really EIGHT
> > years old? For God's sake update your tutorials or remove them from the site
> > so people don't waste their time.
> >
> > Heading to google to search for up-to-date tutorials.
> 
> 
> Please, bear in mind this is a voluntary project - so while the object
> information
> you had as feedback is valuable, meaning "the tutorial on gimp.org is
> so old as to
> be unusable" is valuable, the way you write it will only resent people
> and hardly
> make someone go after learning all the steps needed to update that
> part of the page,
> and re-write it.
> 
> That said, you  are even welcome to help writing new up to date tutorials -
> 
> Regards,
> 

I think that the best is to always report the GIMP version the tutorial refers 
to.
If I want, for example, know how to do "something" with GIMP version 2.4
it could be useful even today...

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Re: [Gimp-docs] Frustration

2012-08-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On 22 August 2012 09:53, Chris Violetti  wrote:
> I decided to teach myself how to use GIMP. I downloaded 2.8 and started with
> the first beginner tutorial, GIMPLite Quickies, on gimp.org. This tutorial
> is so out of date it is unusable.  "After completeing the click and drag
> motion, a little "Crop & Resize Information Dialog" (shown above also) pops
> up". Ummm, no. It doesn't. Nor could I find this dialog searching through
> the numerous menus.
>
> The copyright notice at the top of the GIMPLite Quickies tutorial webpage
> (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/) says 2004. Is it really EIGHT
> years old? For God's sake update your tutorials or remove them from the site
> so people don't waste their time.
>
> Heading to google to search for up-to-date tutorials.


Please, bear in mind this is a voluntary project - so while the object
information
you had as feedback is valuable, meaning "the tutorial on gimp.org is
so old as to
be unusable" is valuable, the way you write it will only resent people
and hardly
make someone go after learning all the steps needed to update that
part of the page,
and re-write it.

That said, you  are even welcome to help writing new up to date tutorials -

Regards,

  js
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