[Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-14 Thread aether
Pere (and David and Martin and all), THANK YOU for your note. You are right that I didn't understand that being connected to the gimp-user mailing list meant that I had the ear of the gimp developers. And, yes, absolutely, if posting the console output will help, I can do that. __

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-13 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
El dv 13 de 03 de 2009 a les 01:32 +0100, en/na aether va escriure: At this point, I think my best bet is to somehow reach GIMP, but I don't yet see any way of doing that. So you just have probed that at least you have overlooked two pages without understanding what they mean: www.gimp.org

[Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-12 Thread aether
Hi. Thanks for the info about GTK+. I did, in fact, find some GTK material on my machine, so I cleaned it out. A reinstall of GIMP failed, same as before. I also found AbiWord, which I kind of like. I installed AbiWord without any problems. So I'm guessing that my problem with GIMP is not

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Nordholts
David Herman wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2009, aether wrote: Hi, again. I appreciate you guys taking the time to help me with GIMP. I have checked everything you've suggested, and I find nothing at all. Abiword is another program that uses gtk, you could try installing that, if

[Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-10 Thread aether
Hi, again. I appreciate you guys taking the time to help me with GIMP. I have checked everything you've suggested, and I find nothing at all. The exception is the application event viewer, and I don't know how to use that. I looked all through the error messages that were generated when GIMP

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-10 Thread David Herman
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, aether wrote: Hi, again. I appreciate you guys taking the time to help me with GIMP. I have checked everything you've suggested, and I find nothing at all. The exception is the application event viewer, and I don't know how to use that. I looked all through the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-08 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Saturday 07 March 2009, aether wrote: But there is just a ton of support and development behind Windows, so the choice isn't an easy one.  Especially when you're busy!) oh shure, see how nice and tidy windwos vista has turned out to be for example.

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-07 Thread David Herman
On Friday 06 March 2009, aether wrote: And I haven't even opened it yet! I recently went to open GIMP, and right when I thought GIMP had finished initializing, I got a dialog box that said GIMP needed to close. I was never able to open GIMP after that. So I uninstalled GIMP and used Search

[Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-07 Thread aether
dh, hi. Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me with GIMP. Sorry about not giving you the spec on my system, but I was actually kind of hoping that there'd be a number of others who had had this problem and would know right off where the glitch was. I'm not finding much of anything about

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-07 Thread David Herman
On Saturday 07 March 2009, aether wrote: dh, hi. snip--- When GIMP fails to load, I get a message telling me why. I can ask thatmessage for details, and I've saved some of that. That kind of info will really help you to get more authorative responses from the list If I can dig

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
aether wrote: And I haven't even opened it yet! I recently went to open GIMP, and right when I thought GIMP had finished initializing, I got a dialog box that said GIMP needed to close. I was never able to open GIMP after that. So I uninstalled GIMP and used Search to clean out all of

[Gimp-user] GIMP needs to close (!)

2009-03-06 Thread aether
And I haven't even opened it yet! I recently went to open GIMP, and right when I thought GIMP had finished initializing, I got a dialog box that said GIMP needed to close. I was never able to open GIMP after that. So I uninstalled GIMP and used Search to clean out all of the stray bits left