Re: [Gimp-user] Help now works.
They do have a precompiled version of gimp 2.2. Go to www.linuxpackages.net and get the .tgz. On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:14:59 -0500, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the precompiled version of Gimp 2.0.6 from the Slackware-current archives, downloaded the 2.0.6 help files, installed them and now Gimp has help files, including a limited amount of context-sensitive help. Hooray! The default help-browser is Mozilla, which is a royal pain. I frequently have multiple browser windows open at the same time. Mozilla has this huge roadblock where you have to fire up a different profile for each instance of the browser. So I will switch my default help browser to Konqueror which has no such impediment. I wrote to the Mozilla folks on this issue but they seem dazzled by the brilliance of their creation, and never mind what the users want or need. I also downloaded the 2.2 tarball but immediately found myself in the library chasing game. So I will hold off on that version until the Slackware folks offer a precompiled edition. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Regards, John Shawger ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help now works.
You can get it here http://www.nymphomatic.org/mirror/linuxpackages/Slackware-10.0/pcxz/gimp/ On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:14:59 -0500, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the precompiled version of Gimp 2.0.6 from the Slackware-current archives, downloaded the 2.0.6 help files, installed them and now Gimp has help files, including a limited amount of context-sensitive help. Hooray! The default help-browser is Mozilla, which is a royal pain. I frequently have multiple browser windows open at the same time. Mozilla has this huge roadblock where you have to fire up a different profile for each instance of the browser. So I will switch my default help browser to Konqueror which has no such impediment. I wrote to the Mozilla folks on this issue but they seem dazzled by the brilliance of their creation, and never mind what the users want or need. I also downloaded the 2.2 tarball but immediately found myself in the library chasing game. So I will hold off on that version until the Slackware folks offer a precompiled edition. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Regards, John Shawger ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
