Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:53:22PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: excuse the triviality of the subject matter. it's been niggling so i bring it up. i teach with the Gimp as part of broader university and masterclass

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-08 Thread Michael Schumacher
Julian Oliver wrote: do you see any harm in users being let into the voting process? or, do you think that this might result in a Splash that doesn't represent the Gimp the way you think it should (everything being made to look so clean and sharp). Yep, that's what I fear might happen. The

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:40:00PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: Julian Oliver wrote: do you see any harm in users being let into the voting process? or, do you think that this might result in a Splash that doesn't represent the Gimp the way you think it should (everything being

Re: [Gimp-user] old GIMP screenshots wanted

2006-01-08 Thread Eric P
Axel Wernicke wrote: Hi all, a week ago I translated a chapter of the GIMP manual that is dealing with the GIMP history. Given the fact that this is about ten years of open source and contribution involving lots of lots of people I was curious if there aren't a couple of screenshots from

[Gimp-user] cache-font problems

2006-01-08 Thread net kat
I use Gimp on OS X (Tiger) in an X11 windowing environment. haven't used gimp in a few weeks, and today I get a dialogue box with a progress bar when I launch Gimp: The operation cannot be completed because the item cache-fonts is in use this thing never clears and gimp never becomes

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:57:29PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: thanks carol, for your verbose response. yes of course the splash can be changed, but when software's being evaluated i guess uni's like to take what is offered, on the surface. i for instance run gimp with --no-splash

Re: [Gimp-user] Patterns

2006-01-08 Thread Eric P
Carol Spears wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:17:31AM +1100, Owen wrote: Carol Spears wrote: it would be interesting to find out what resolutions and what catagories of patterns the users of gimp would find useful. I don't have 7MP camera, but I assume if you want to fill a selection of a

[Gimp-user] Script-fu newbie: need to batch-convert files to indexed color

2006-01-08 Thread Paul Santa Maria
Hi - I'm new to Script-Fu, Scheme and Gimp plug-ins. I'm running gimp 2.2.4 on SuSE Linux 9.3. I've been through all of the tutorials, and several days of trial-and-error, but I just can't get it to work. I need to write a script that converts all of the *.png files in a directory from RGBA