Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-05-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Kamens j...@kamens.us wrote: It is certainly important for the authors and developers of an application to know who their targeted audience is. I'm curious, though... Do you know what percentage of the people who actually use GIMP now are part of that

Re: [Gimp-user] Linux philosophy - Maximum efficiency/minimum input

2012-06-18 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Linux philosophy, patch it or fork it =) isn't that what's behind stuff like trinity anyway? ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-06-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM, CoreForce wrote: The new save feature is not user friendly and it just kills productivity. I can see no other purpose of it other than a political game. Because of

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-06-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: UPS delivery or email? Please, don't be rude to such an esteemed and valuable former member of this community. A personal visit is the only

Re: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x

2012-06-30 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jul 1, 2012 12:24 AM, John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:01:32 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: most of the people who like it have nothing much to say about the subject. Which means that _you_ take the liberty of assigning

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-06-30 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
As someone who teaches 11 year old kids, I can safely say you're not being fair to the kids, they're generally more nature than that. On Jul 1, 2012 12:19 AM, Kasim Ahmic kasim.ah...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously? I don't like the Save vs. Export thing any more than you or anyone else here but

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jul 2, 2012 9:21 PM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: I've been reading a lot of these down the nose developer vs user emails for what seems like a year now? And it strikes me how much this I guess is really a possible byproduct of open source development, though I think there are

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp - 2.8 Usability Drop

2012-07-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:40 PM, drankinatty for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Now we find ourselves in a situation where the community and user base has made clear their preference for the 2.6 style open/save dialog that preserves the choice of the user to save in whatever format they choose,

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp - 2.8 Usability Drop

2012-07-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: On 07/12/2012 09:46 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: [...] Opensource always has been a meritocracy, not a democracy. Except when it's a dictatorship, i.e. Ubuntu is owned outright by Mark Shuttleworth and users saw

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp definition

2012-08-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Kevin Cozens ke...@ve3syb.ca wrote: After you have talked with Linus, let us know what he said. :-) If I recall correctly he claimed that his projects are named after himself due to his 'egocentricness'. Hence 'Linux' and 'git' =p

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-08-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Olivier oleca...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/6 Anoko for...@gimpusers.com: I just want to add I'm also not happy with the new export vs save feature. I use GIMP for all my edit tasks; from complex foto editting to really simple screenshot taking and trimming it

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-08-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 8 Aug 2012 07:24, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: In summary, IF nearly every one of the developers responses included some version of the following statement, nearly half of your long threads would vanish and life would be good: We understand _ presents a difficult situation for

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers in reverse

2012-08-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Misty Day wrote: Is there a way to take a flattened image and reverse that so you can manipulate the layers? You mean, an already saved image? No. Of course, if you

Re: [Gimp-user] About bad new save export function in Gimp-2.8

2012-09-10 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: We just did something some people don't like. Therefore for them the rest doesn't matter and probably doesn't even exist. Hence all the talks about reaility. 'Probably doesn't even exist' is probably

Re: [Gimp-user] About bad new save export function in Gimp-2.8

2012-09-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sep 12, 2012 5:56 PM, maderios mader...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/2012 10:16 AM, Simon Budig wrote: maderios (mader...@gmail.com) wrote: May be but you have already the choice with window-single mode or not. Then you open edit - preferences and here, incredible thing, you can discover

Re: [Gimp-user] Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

2012-09-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kfayejessee for...@gimpusers.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee for...@gimpusers.com wrote: So I have been working on this painting for over a week… Rule #1: Perform regular backups Rule #2: See Rule #1 Sorry for the semi-snarky response,

Re: [Gimp-user] Please remove me from the mailing list

2012-11-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:37 PM, vlasta...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ^^^ read this

Re: [Gimp-user] How to revert to version 2.6 in Ubuntu

2012-11-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Pietro Calogero pie...@urbanpolicy.net wrote: Hi all, I need to revert to GIMP version 2.6. Please tell me the proper BASH commands to do this in an Ubuntu system. Evidently I am not the power-user type for whom the GIMP team designed their 2.8 version. I

Re: [Gimp-user] How to revert to version 2.6 in Ubuntu

2012-11-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:28 AM, MetroPietro for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Sadly, your reply affirms my sense of the condescension in the GIMP community--and I notice that you did not offer any way to revert this interface design back to match an existing working-method. Yes, why not expand

Re: [Gimp-user] export vs save

2013-02-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com wrote: When a major UI change like this is contemplated, why would it not be implemented as a configuration switch which can be turned on/off on the Preferences menu? In this particular case, a simple switch could reverse the Save

Re: [Gimp-user] export vs save

2013-02-19 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Feb 19, 2013 7:31 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:54:41AM +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote: I can't believe this was not brought up by someone already... https://xkcd.com/1172/ So, okay: should the response to that person be: - You should get longer

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP kickstarter?

2013-07-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 8 Jul 2013 14:03, FallenLegend for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Imposition? You mean like n-up printing? Why would you do that with GIMP? My impression is that it sounds a bit like Let's fund anything, anything via Kickstarter! :) Please let's not try to treat crowdfunding as a silver bullet.

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP kickstarter?

2013-07-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 8 Jul 2013 17:01, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On 8 Jul 2013 14:03, FallenLegend wrote: You obviously have no idea whose email you just replied to Why would FallenLegend need to know that? Relax, people

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:08 AM, maderios mader...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/10/2013 06:54 PM, John Meyer wrote: On 8/10/2013 10:50 AM, maderios wrote: On 08/09/2013 03:07 PM, s.kortenweg wrote: When i started 50 years ago in the early days of IT as prof was me told that there are 2 rules for

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP for Android

2013-11-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Thanks for this =) as a non-note owner, is this even semi usable with touchscreen input? On 12 Nov 2013 18:53, Sergii Pylypenko x.pely...@gmail.com wrote: I did not patch GIMP at all, I used Debian Wheezy armeabihf package. The magic is inside those scripts - there are several LD_PRELOAD-ed

Re: [Gimp-user] Can I configure my mouse to....

2015-09-11 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Fairly trivial to configure the trackball buttons to do that system-wide on Linux. Of course, you don't specify what OS you're using. In terms of gimp-specific, I'm not really sure. On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Richard wrote: > Well, actually it's a trackball --

Re: [Gimp-user] Can I configure my mouse to....

2015-09-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
> > Oops, yes I did forget to mention that -- running on a Windows platform > whose default mouse driver historically does NOT allow you to reconfigure > any buttons (beyond general handedness). On Windows, at least for Logitech mice, there's a Logitech utility which allows button remapping. Not