[Gimp-user] way to change the "transparent" checkerboard?

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Morse
I'm working with a lot of small grayscale images with transparency. The grey-on-grey checkerboard that gimp displays for "transparent" pixels camoflauges the actual image pixels almost perfectly, making things hard to work with. Is there a preference somewhere to set the transparent-bg to some t

[Gimp-user] Problems building on solaris 8

2001-05-23 Thread Patti Ames
I'm having problems compiling gimp 1.2.1 on Solaris 8. uname -a: SunOS hostname 5.8 Generic_108528-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 gtk-config --version: 1.2.10 (compiled from source) gcc --version: 2.95.2 the configure makes the CC and LD in plug-ins/perl/*/Makefile be cc. I want gcc. If I change

[Gimp-user] Who is the mail archive maintainer?

2001-05-23 Thread Carol Spears
http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-user%40xcf.berkeley.edu/msg03034.html http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer%40scam.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg04181.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] slow large file handling

2001-05-23 Thread Jon Winters
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kelly Martin wrote: > Unfortunately, there is no "5. Add more processors"; GIMP does not > multithread. I enable multi processor when I compile gimp. I don't have the exact switch on me but I keep it in a text file at home. If you've got an SMP box you should compile accor

[Gimp-user] slow large file handling

2001-05-23 Thread Kelly Martin
On Wed, 23 May 2001 08:19:54 -0500 (CDT), ebi5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Are there ways to speed up handling of large files? i.e. zooming and >refresh rate. 1. Increase the tile cache size. 2. Add more memory. 3. Use faster hard drives. 4. Use a faster processor. Unfortunately, there is no "5.

Re: [Gimp-user] slow large file handling

2001-05-23 Thread Rasputin
* Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010523 15:08]: > To my understanding, the gimp was build with quality images as a first > priority and speed second. > > Someone told me, good things take time. :) Maybe, but why not throw more RAM at it. That fixes nearly everything GUI-related... Isn't the

Re: [Gimp-user] slow large file handling

2001-05-23 Thread Carol Spears
To my understanding, the gimp was build with quality images as a first priority and speed second. Someone told me, good things take time. ebi5 wrote: > > Are there ways to speed up handling of large files? i.e. zooming and > refresh rate. > > Thanks, > > : Gene Imes h