[Gimp-user] full-screen mode on Mac OS X - selecting which monitor to use?
Hey all, I was very happy to see that when I recently upgrade to the most current gimp through ports on Mac OS X 10.6, I was able to successfully switch to fullscreen view - something I missed a lot from when I was working on Linux... However, I'm running with two monitors, and the gimp always seems to select my primary monitor for full screen mode, even though I'd rather it be on the secondary monitor, since it's somewhat higher resolution, and then the X11 menu isn't stealing screen space. However, in digging through the manual, the preferences and a bunch of googling around, I can't figure out how to move it onto my secondary monitor. Is this possible? If so, how? Warren -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Please Change the Derogatory Name
Owen wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:54:48 -0600 Roland Hordos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, While all other credible opensource projects are gaining ground in a professional IT setting, the GIMP is being held back because of the instant derogatory impact of the name. If someone who can champion this task reads this, please humble yourself for the sake of this amazing software that some of us are embarrassed to promote, or simply won't until the name is changed. I am amazed and have never followed this up. In what language is Gimp an derogatory term? Certainly has no meaning in my language What is your language? In English 'gimp' is defined to mean both someone who has a physical deformity that results in a limp - see definitions 3 and 4 at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gimp or the fifth entry in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp, or any of several entries at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gimp I've also heard it used for side-show freaks who like to do things like hammer nails up their nostrils. I suspect it might just be an issue local to a country, like durex is a condom in the UK, sticky tape here well - it's probably only an issue in English speaking countries (at least Canada and the US), but still... I must admit that when I've told non-open source users the name of the image manipulation app I use, a lot of people haven't taken it seriously because of the name. I'm not 100% sure I'd suggest a name change, but I must agree that there is probably a large portion of the population who would take the project less seriously because of the current name, and a small portion of the population who would be actively offended by the current name. Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Dialogues staying on top in 2.3.9?
Sven Neumann wrote: You are supposed to use GIMP 2.2 until GIMP 2.4 has been released. The 2.3 releases are just for trying some of the new stuff, not for production work. I know - but in the past I've usually used dev releases --- this is the first time I've ran into any kind of serious problem with a dev release. I used an earlier build of 2.3 on mac os for a while until I moved back onto a linux laptop. When I started using 2.2, I really missed some of the 2.3 changes, and with 2.4 sounding kinda close, I didn't think I'd run into any issues with 2.3.9. I assume the plan is to have this controlled by some kind of option on the preferences panel for 2.4? Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Dialogues staying on top in 2.3.9?
Hi all, I just upgraded to 2.3.9 from the 2.2.11 bundled in ubuntu 6.06. I'm finding that the main dialogue and the layers dialogue are staying on-top of the image window. Is this an intentional change? I end up doing a lot of image manipulation on my laptop - and on a 1024x768 display, I really want to be able to use my entire display for the image window - I usually alt-tab back and forth between the image window and the other dialogues as needed. This change makes the gimp almost unusable for me. Is there anyway to disable this behaviour? I've dug through the preferences page, and I couldn't see anything obvious. Suggestions on how to fix this would be really appreciated - I'm afraid I'm probably going to have to go back to using the 2.2 family until I can figure out how to undo this... Thanks. Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp on OS 10.43
BandiPat wrote: It's simple, Apple strangles the Unix that is on the machine. If you had a straight install of Unix without anything Apple over or under it, you would see a dramatic increase in speed also. I read an article a few months ago about the problems associated with OS X on their machines. I wish I could remember where it was, so I could point you to it. It's just Apple's way of taking something really good and making it less than perfect with their add ons. Every user I've talked to or article I've read remarks how much faster Linux is on the PPC than OS X. It's a great cpu, sadly Apple didn't want it to appear that way. Hmm. I did see an article a while back talking about perf issues with apache --- I think it had something to do with context switches taking longer than on linux... But that shouldn't affect the Gimp much... And I'm not sure I buy the argument that Mac OS X is just slower --- like I said, photoshop was about 15 times faster that the Gimp at doing an unsharp mask on an 800 mhz g4 on mac os x. Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp on OS 10.43
On 11/30/05, BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren,Ever thought about installing a native Linux install with your Mac?I'mguessing you will see quite a difference running Gimp in Linux on thatPPC!There are several available now and SuSE has started it's new 10 on PPC as well.If you have the hard drive space, I think it would beworth your time. Hmm... out of curiousity - why do you think I'll see a big difference? You think the perf problems I'm seeing are related to MacOSX, and not things that are poorly optimized for PPC? I'd assumed it was that some of the tight loop math stuff was behaving better on x86 than on PPC. I guess it would be an interesting experiment --- Unfortunately I don't have much extra disk space on my ibook, so I'm not sure it's feasible... Linux isn't a solution for my problem anyways - even if they had support for the airport extreme card, I'm not sure I'd want to switch --- I've gotten very fond of iPhoto... Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp on OS 10.43
On 11/30/05, Bruce Arkwright Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone using Gimp on a Mac? All versions will not work, I get the starting Dialog box showing It isloading but by the time it is loading font data it crashes. I need my GIMP. AHGGG. I'm running gimp 2.2.6 with 10.4.3 and it seems fine... I'm using the Gimp.app verison. I do find it is noticably slower than on linux at the same clock speeds (at least 2x slower, maybe more), but it works fine for me... Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp on OS 10.43
On 11/30/05, Axel Wernicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @Warren: the slowdown in the gui is probably caused by Apples X11. That might be change in future with the hopefully upcoming native gtk+ for OS X. It's not a GUI slowdown that I'm talking about --- it's ops like doing an unsharp mask.. I did some comparisons a while back between linux on an athlon 1800+ (1.5 ghz), and macosx on an 800mhz g4, and for an 8 megapixel image, linux was taking 18s to do the unsharp mask, and the mac was taking 75s --- much slower than the relative clock speeds. For comparison, Photoshop takes about 5s to do the unsharp mask on the mac. It does make it pretty painful to use. I was actually contemplating buying photoshop - but I've been using the gimp for so long I don't want to switch I was going to fire up a profiler and see what's happening - but the last time I tried I couldn't get the gimp to compile through fink... I assume that the code isn't using X to do the actual bitmap manipulations, so I doubt the native gtk+ implemenation will help me here. It'll still be nice though... :-) Warren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Crop Tool Use Cases
On 8/23/05, Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Crop an area of constrained aspect ratio, letting you move or resize the crop rectangle to choose the right area. (I don't do this very much, but people ask for it all the time, and maybe I'd do it if it were easier. Someone who needs/uses this should speak up with details on how it should work!) I've played with this in iPhoto - the implementation there lets you pick from a list of standard aspect ratios (2x3, 8x10), or a custom ratio, and then the crop is contrained to that ratio. The best use-case I can think of is for printing. If I know I want to print borderless on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, I'd like to be able to crop to that aspect ratio directly, rather than letting the printer driver decide to crop it in some arbitrary way. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
