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

2012-07-17 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:08:29 +0400 > From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:51 PM, pitibonom wrote: > > > From my own part, what decid

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

2012-07-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:51 PM, pitibonom wrote: > From my own part, what decided me to get back to 2.6 is the lame > impossibility to choose page format: portrait or landscape. http://i.imgur.com/cb85t.jpg > GL for your future lame choices developpers ! Thx, much appreciated :) Alexandre P

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

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 02:17:04 +0200 > From: for...@gimpusers.com > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > CC: t...@gimpusers.com > Subject: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x > > Why I switched back to 2.6: > > Sliders- too weird for digital painting with a tablet. I would like mo

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

2012-07-01 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 03:23:23 -0700 > From: kwarner...@verizon.net > To: strata_ran...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x > > > Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. > > nor do they expl

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

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:10:32 -0300 > From: j...@jcoppens.com > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0700 > Richard Gitschlag wrote: > > > There have been hundreds o

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

2012-06-30 Thread Steve Kinney
On 06/30/2012 07:30 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > authors which have specifically signed up for this list to rant > (since they obviously did not read the previous complaints). I resemble that remark: I joined up to rant about the single window "innovation." I did rant. But only once. Opinion veheme

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

2012-06-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Not that an open source project is necessarily a democracy anyway. It's a doacracy :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https:/

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

2012-06-30 Thread Johannes
Am 30.06.2012 23:06, schrieb Francesco Scaglioni: I seem to be in a minority opinion on this list. For my workflow the new behaviour is great. Raw to GIMP, work on image for a bit, saves as xcf, come back another time, do more work on xcf and when finally happy export to jpeg. If I wanted bulk

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" wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:01:32 +0400 > Alexandre Prokoudine 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 sentiments to > people who do not express

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

2012-06-30 Thread Daniel Smith
Can't we all get along? http://abcnews.go.com/meta/search/imageDetail?format=plain&source=http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/ap_obit_rodney_king_swimming_pool_jt_120617 Thanks, Dan On 6/30/12, Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be in a minority opinion on this list. For my workflow the n

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

2012-06-30 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, I seem to be in a minority opinion on this list. For my workflow the new behaviour is great. Raw to GIMP, work on image for a bit, saves as xcf, come back another time, do more work on xcf and when finally happy export to jpeg. If I wanted bulk raw to jpeg then I would simply do all adjustm

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

2012-06-30 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:55:50 +0200 Jernej Simončič wrote: > > Did you search the dialog? Did you see the large button "Type a file > > name" in the top left corner? > > It's not there while you're in the (totally and completely useless) Recent > files view. You have to switch to some other folde

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

2012-06-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:24 PM, John Coppens wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:01:32 +0400 > Alexandre Prokoudine 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 sentiments to > people who do not expre

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

2012-06-30 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:01:32 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine 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 sentiments to people who do not express their opinion. You effectively say: 'The people who say noth

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

2012-06-30 Thread Steve Kinney
On 06/30/2012 11:54 AM, John Coppens wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:19:13 +0400 > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Why not do a _real_ poll on the opinion of the users re: the new > 'save feature'? I have not seen the new "save" function yet - I use the GIMP for daily production work and I find it

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

2012-06-30 Thread Johannes
Am 30.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Richard Gitschlag: > The problem with 2.6 was when people were working on multi-layer > compositions and they save a copy in a standard file format (and I am > not going to argue semantics of the word "save" here) ... if you used > "Save a Copy" then everything was fin

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

2012-06-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:54 PM, John Coppens wrote: >> Stats that there have been hundreds of mails? >> That most people who like it have nothing much to say about it? >> >> Do _you_ have stats that prove the opposite? :) > > No Alexandre... This was a serious question. It's easy to say 'there is

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

2012-06-30 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:19:13 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Stats that there have been hundreds of mails? > That most people who like it have nothing much to say about it? > > Do _you_ have stats that prove the opposite? :) No Alexandre... This was a serious question. It's easy to say 'the

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

2012-06-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:10 PM, John Coppens wrote: >> There have been hundreds of emails on this topic already - and mind the fact >> that most of the people who like it have nothing much to say about the >> subject. > > That is just wishful thinking... Dp you have stats to prove that > statem

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

2012-06-30 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0700 Richard Gitschlag wrote: > There have been hundreds of emails on this topic already - and mind the fact > that most of the people who like it have nothing much to say about the > subject. That is just wishful thinking... Dp you have stats to prove that statem

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

2012-06-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM, wrote: > These are the reasons why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to GIMP 2.6.x: > > 1.) The free text field in the "Open file" view has been removed, or at > least I couldn't find it. A frequent use case for me is to copy a fully > qualified file name (i.e. including

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

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> >> 2.) I open a JPEG and I want to save(!) it as JPEG. Why is GIMP starting > >> to domineer over the user now (like e.g. MS Windows has been doing all the > >> time) by changing the file type to XCF and forcing the user to "export" > >> the image (that was opened as a JPEG!) if he wants to

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

2012-06-30 Thread Frank Gore
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Olivier wrote: > About this point, please refer to the hundreds of mails already > exchanged about the matter, and please really try the new behavior, > without assuming bad thinking from the developers. I read all the emails about this. And I've been trying... I'

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

2012-06-30 Thread Johannes
Am 30.06.2012 12:01, schrieb Olivier: > 2012/6/30 : >> These are the reasons why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to GIMP 2.6.x: >> >> 1.) The free text field in the "Open file" view has been removed, or at >> least I couldn't find it. A frequent use case for me is to copy a fully >> qualified file nam

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

2012-06-30 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:01:20 +0200, Olivier wrote: > Did you search the dialog? Did you see the large button "Type a file > name" in the top left corner? It's not there while you're in the (totally and completely useless) Recent files view. You have to switch to some other folder first. GTK+ devs

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

2012-06-30 Thread Olivier
2012/6/30 : > These are the reasons why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to GIMP 2.6.x: > > 1.) The free text field in the "Open file" view has been removed, or at least > I couldn't find it. A frequent use case for me is to copy a fully qualified > file name (i.e. including the path) of an image and t