[Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
Hi, GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. In the archives I found information that to delete a color profile, you just set the color space (Image, Mode, Assign Color Profile...) to sRGB which apparently is a color space without color profile. There were three TIFF images which

[Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. Is this a bug? Should I post this on the developer list instead? Am I doing this incorrectly? At a minimum, I think there is some GUI confusion... at least it is not logical to my way of thinking. This is a little complicated, so please read

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:26 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Procedure: - Select all in old image - Copy - Paste into the new image. This now results in a Background and a Floating Selection. It says Floating Selection it does *NOT* say ... Layer A Floating Selection is a selection that has been

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:03 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:26 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Procedure: - Select all in old image - Copy - Paste into the new image. This now results in a Background and a Floating Selection. It says Floating Selection it does *NOT* say ... Layer

Re: [Gimp-user] Preventing selections and such from flagging the image as modified

2009-12-18 Thread Sven Neumann
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:48 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote: Whenever I click with the selection tool in an image GIMP regards the image as edited. I'm assuming there is a reason for this, but is there any way to turn this feature off? No. The selection mask is part of the image and if you modify it,

Re: [Gimp-user] Preventing selections and such from flagging the image as modified

2009-12-18 Thread Deniz Dogan
2009/12/18 Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:48 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote: Whenever I click with the selection tool in an image GIMP regards the image as edited. I'm assuming there is a reason for this, but is there any way to turn this feature off? No. The selection mask

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Sven Neumann
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: I _do_ have a saved sample corrupted image file if anybody needs this for testing purposes. Is this a bug? Is it known? Should I post on the developer list? Should I put it in bugzilla? Your files are corrupt. You can't possibly expect

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 02:02 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: I _do_ have a saved sample corrupted image file if anybody needs this for testing purposes. Is this a bug? Is it known? Should I post on the developer list? Should I put it in bugzilla?

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:41 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:15 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Thank you very much for the procedure suggestion. Really Cool!! I will experiment with that. How would I have known that? Maybe I should RTFM? But. Maybe the manual mentions this.

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: If I were a developer, with the necessary skills, I would be curious about what was killing off the plugin and why the plugin dieing (especially when it was just trying to open a dialog and had not actually attempted to take action on

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 18.12.2009 21:00, Jay Smith wrote: a) *You* originally made the point out that a Floating Selection is a Floating Selection and is *not* really a Layer. The plan is to get rid of floating selections altogether. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561576, for example. Michael

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: My point is that the *error/reporting messages say* that (because of the corrupted file) the plugin has died and potentially left Gimp in an unstable state. Any software that dies while processing has a bug, so you could file a bugzilla

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 03:16 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: If I were a developer, with the necessary skills, I would be curious about what was killing off the plugin and why the plugin dieing (especially when it was just trying to open a dialog and

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Nordholts
Jay Smith wrote: I was attempting to contribute and share and experience and information. I infer from your response that I have been instructed to think twice before trying to get involved again. Hi, You seem like a nice guy with a healthy attitude, so it would be a shame if this would

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:39 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: By the way, if possible, I would like to do this parasite removal on tens of thousands of files. Perhaps as the 'exec' of a 'find' command. I don't understand why you are even considering to use GIMP then. If all you care about is the

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 05:48 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:39 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: By the way, if possible, I would like to do this parasite removal on tens of thousands of files. Perhaps as the 'exec' of a 'find' command. I don't understand why you are even

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:09 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: b) I would like to find a method to remove color profile parasites on thousands of images, via the command line. You have suggested trying tifftopnm | pnmtotiff do to this. I will experiment with that, but I have a concern as noted below.

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. Is this a bug? Should I post this on the developer list instead? Am I doing this incorrectly? At a minimum, I think there is some GUI confusion... at least it is not logical

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Owen
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:56:54 -0500 Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Hi, GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. In the archives I found information that to delete a color profile, you just set the color space (Image, Mode, Assign Color Profile...) to sRGB which apparently is a